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THE OGLETHORPE ECHO SUBSCRIPTION. *"*NE YEAR go AO three months CLUB RATES. TfSXyvmS ß ° r than u 10 > “*••• 1-7* 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. UNDER THE SEA. How Messages are Sent by the Ocean Cable. [Boston Herald.] u The ocean telegraph operator taps the key as in a land telegraph, only it is a double kev. It has two levers and knobs instead of one. The alphabet used is substantially the same as the Morse al phabet—that, the different letters are represented by a combination of dashes and dots. For instance, suppose you want to write the word “ boy.” It would read like this : “ —... 1 Bis one dash and three dots; O, three dashes ; and Y, one dash, one dot, and three dashes. Now, in the land telegraph the dashes and the dots would appear on the strip of paper at the other end of the line, which is unwound from a cylin der, and perforted by a pin at the end of the bay or armature. If the operator could read by sound, we would dispense with the strip of paper, and read the message by the “ click” of the armature as it is pulled down and let go by the electric magnet. The cable operator, however, has nei ther of these advantages. There is no paper to perforate, no click of the arma ture, and no armature to click. The message is read by means of a moving flash of light upon a polished scale pro duced by the “■deflection of a very small mirror, which is placed within a “mirror galvanometer,” which is a small brass cylinder two or three inches in diameter, shaped like a spool or bobbin, composed of several hundred turns of small w ire wound with silk to keep the metal from coming in contact. It is wound or coil ed exactly like a bundle of new rope, a small hole being left in the middle about the size of a common wooden pencil. In the centre of this is suspended a very thin, delicate mirror about as large as a kernel of corn with a correspondingly small magnet rigidly attached to the back of it. It weighs but a little more than a grain, and is suspended by a sin gle fibre of silk, much smaller than a human hair, and almost invisible. A narrow horizontal scale is placed within a darkened box two or three feet in front of the mirror, a narrow’ slit being cut in the centre of the scale to allow a ray of light to shine upon the mirror from a lamp placed behind said scale, the little mirror in turn reflecting the light back upon the scale. This spot of light upon the scale is the index by which all messages are read. The aii"lc through which the ray moves is double that traversed by the mirror itself; and it is, therefore, really equivalent to an index four or six feet in length, without weight. To the casual observer there is nothing but a thin ray of light, darting to the Tight and left with irregular rapidity ; but to the trained eye of the operator every flash is replete with intelligence. Thus the word “ boy,” already alluded to, would read in this w r ay: One flash to the right and three to the left is B. Three flashes to the right is O. One to the right, one to the left, and two more to the right is Y, and so on. Long and constant practice makes the operators wonderfully expert in their profession, and enables them to read from the mirror as readily and as accurately as from a newspaper. ARTIFICIAL ICE. Speaking of the ice-w'orks of the man ufacturing company at Montgomery, Ala., the Advertiser gives the following interesting account of the manner in which the great frigid luxury is made: Seventy thousand gallons of water are used daily in the manufacture of 12,000 pounds of ice, the cost of which, when placed in the ice-house, is about f of a cent per pound, which is cheaper than the freight from the Lakes if the ice was put on the cars gratis, besides the advan tage of getting it in small quantities when desired, and being much cleaner and purer than Lake ice. The distilled water is put in tin cans 30 inches long, 91 inches wide, and 2J inches thick, which leaves the ice in con venient shape for handling. These cans are then placed in rows in tanks filled with salt water (though of course the salt water does not come quite to the tops of the cans so as to mix with the distilled water which they contain), through which iron pipes conduct the ether. The ether is made in another room, and after being purified is pumped into a receiver and brought under a pressure of 70 to 110 to the square inch, which liquidizes it. It is then forced through a small tube to a larger tube wdiich opens into all the pipes in the tank (about 100 pipes in each tank) ; it then expands into a gas and tills all the tubes (its capacity for ex pansion being as 1 to 600). The ether extracts the caloric from the water which surrounds the tubes, thus equalizing the temperature, and bringing the whole below the freezing point; the distilled water freezing very readily, and the salt water being brought down seve ral degrees colder than ice, yet without freezing. The gas passes on through the pipes and into the receiver, from which it is pumped into an ether holder and again reduced to a liquid by pressure, which is facilitated by passing it through a long coil of pipe surrounded by cold water. It is then forced through the tubes again and performes the same work over. Some of the other gas pipes were covered with snow to the depth of three quarters of an inch, collected from the surrounding atmosphere. It is very difficult to confine it, but if not allowed to escape the same quantity can be used continually. It is said to be much bet ter than mercury, as the latter eats out copper pipes in a short time, and iron pipes in about two years, while the lat ter does not affect the metals. The cans are taken out one at a time and dipped into a vat of hot water, thus loosening the cake of ice, which then slips out, and the can is again filled and set in its place. This is done three times a day. These slabs of ice weigh twenty five pounds each, and four ot them are piled on top of either and allowed to freeze together, making 100 pounds to the block. These blocks are kept sepa rate bv placing small sticks Detween them. _ An Accommodating Town. —As an innocent-looking old was going up Wash ington street yesterday, a drayman nod ded at him and asked : “NV ant a dray. Mister ?” “ No—o, I guess not,” replied the old man, “I’m too fur from home and can’t pay freight on it. Much obleeged, though. Vicksburg is a power ful nice town. A fellow back there asked me if I didn’t want a coat, another in quired if I wanted a hack, and now you offer me a dray. I wish I lived here.” Vicksburg Herald, ®l)£ (Dgldl)orpc feljo, BY T. L. GANTT. THINGS IN GENERAL. —The hog crop of East Tennessee will be small this year. —They pay school inarms $1.25 per week in Wisconsin. —North America now has communi cation with Europe through five cables. —A man in lowa has applied for a patent on a plow to be worked by wind power. —A man in Massachusetts, 73 yeats old", had lately born unto him his twenty first child. —We have in the United States $166,- 000,000 in specie and $750,000,000 in pa per currency. John C. Calhoun’s last surviving child, Mrs. Clemson, died a few days ago at Pendleton, S. C. —British Columbia will send a flag pole 140 feet long, composed of a single tree, to the Centennial. —Anything written or printed on the side of a postal card intended for the ad dress subjects it to letter postage. —The largest church in North Caroli na has just been erected at the falls of Tar river, by the Primitive Baptists. —A Texas man has a 60,000 acre field under one fence. He recently filled an order by telegraph for 26,000 beeves. —One-third of the vessels of the Ital ian navy are offered for sale at a million dollars. They cost seven millions. —An alligator got into the paddle wheel of a large steamer on the St. John’s river, Fla., and stopped the boat. —A young woman who found herself at Sandwich, 111., without money, pawn ed her glass eye for $2, to take her home. —The House of Representatives stands 171 Democrats, 101 Republicans, 6 Inde pendents, and 6 to be elected from Mis sissippi. —Dr. Livingstone, the great African explorer, was reared a poor factory boy, and pursued his studies while working at the loom. —An English publisher has just issu ed a Bible weighing 3£ ounces. It can be sent through the British post offices for one penny. —Two New Yorkers are at law over a fifty cent knife. One says he is ready to spend SSOO if necessary, and the other is ready to carry it into the Supreme Court. —lf you only lived on the sea coast of Texas you could go out and gather a ton of salt in half an hour, aud you could get twenty cents for It by hauling it eighteen miles. —Some scoundrel entered the bed room of a young lady in Ohio, recently, and poured some acid in her face. She was terribly disfigured and lost her eye sight. —The question warmly discussed in the Jewish synagogues of New York city—namely, the right of the congrega tion t<J allow women to sit in the pews with their families, instead of sending them to the galleries—has been decided affimatively. —A leading Paris paper strongly ad vocates the re-establishment of the Inqui sition. It thinks that the Cath olic Church has the right of jurisdiction over all on whom, through baptism, have been imposed the obligations of Chris tians. A large mirror in a house in Bucks county, Pa., was struck by lightning, and the particles of glass so imbedded in the wood work of the room that not a piece the size of an inch could be found. The piano was also struck, but the tone was uninjured. —A Plymouth man, in visiting his barn, the other day, found a hen “ set ting,” as he supposed, but, upon taking her from the nest, found four kittens curled up under her, and investigation showed that she was alternating with the parent cat in taking care of the lit ter, one always occupying the nest while the other is absent. —The memorial in marble to Sir John Franklin, in Westminster Abbey, which has recently been uncovered, contains this inscription by Tennyson : “ Not here; the white North has thy bones ; and thou, heroic sailor-soul, Art passing on thy happier voyage now, to ward no earthly pole.” —Johu Thompson, of Farmington, who lost a pair of spectacles while dig ging potatoes four years ago, and had plowed and harrowed the field three times since, found them, Saturday, em bedded in an Early Rose potato, which had so grown around them as to hold them in the position in which specta cles are worn. —A woman in Baltimore, desiring death, but having no home iu which to die, bought morphine at a drug store, and drank it as she walked in the street. She kept on as the drug began to take effect, and a crowd of boys, supposing that her staggering was the result of in toxication, followed after her. At length, after traversing several streets, she fell, and the boys threw mud on her. Iu that way she died. —The Viceroy of Egypt is about to as tonish the world again. He has resolved to build a railroad along the valley of the Nile in the interior ot Africa, and as he has plenty of money and thousands of serfs at his command, he will no doubt accomplish his purpose. In a few years African explorers will be able to travel in sleeping cars, and write magnificent descriptions of places they pass through in the dark. —A remarkable series of accidents oc curred in lowa a few days since. In a certain family there were three small children, the oldest being five years, two of whom went to the barn to find hens’ nests. They found one, and crawled to it, and one of them thrust his hands for ward to get the eggs, when he quickly withdrew it, saying the old hen had bit ten him. The other. said he wasn’t afraid, and thrust his hand forward, When he, too, was bitten. Both of them screamed, which quickly brought the mother to the spot, when it was discov ered that they had been bitten by a rat tlesnake, which was coiled in the nest. The mother seized the little boys in her arms and hastened to the house, when a new horror met her gaze. In her haste to succor the boys at the barn, she had set down a boiler of hot water, into which the babe bad fallen. In less than half an hour all the children were dead. CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 15, 1875. DEVILTRIES. —When is an egg not oval J When you turn it round. —lnjin probabilities : “ Mebbe snow next week ; mebbe heap dam hot.” —Babies are described as coupons at tached to the bonds of matrimony. —Railroads have now three guages— a broad guage, a narrow gage and mort gage. —The editor who said his mouth nev er uttered a lie probably spoke through his nose. —An lowa editor has branded his con temporary “ a mangy dog—a disgrace to his own fleas.” —He was chopping wood and his axe caught over the clothes-line* After life’s fitful fever he sleeps well. —“ I say,” said a fellow to a fop with conspicuous bow legs, “ don’t you have to have your pantaloons cut with a scroll saw ?” —Mrs. Day, of lowa, is the mother of triplets, and her husband sadly remarks that no one can tell what a day will bring forth. —“ Cold streaks playing tag down my back,” is the way a little Ypsilanti (Mich.) girl describes the approach of an ague chill. —Fifteen years ago a Washington gentleman scratched his name on.a gold dollar and sent it on its travels. He has never seen it since. —A. D. 2000. Scene before a crema tion undertaker’s shop. Small boy—“ I say,sir, is dad done yet ? If he is, please put him in this ’ere tin kittle. —“ Are you the mate of the ship ?” asked an emigrant of the cook, who was an Irishman. “No, sir,” was the reply ; “ I am the man who cooks the mate.” —“ There is no sunset in heaven,” says a noted divine. We’ll go further than that. There’s no getting up of nights to draw the baby’s legs back un der the cover. “ You never saw my hands as dirty as that,” said a mother reproach fully,yester day, to her little eight-year-old girl. “ Cause I never seen you when you was a little girl,” was the prompt reply. —According to a New York corres pondent, an Italian boy sat in Union Square two days, displaying a placard on which was written : “ This poor woman was left a widow with four small child ren.” —Some time-honored proverbial say ings need revision to suit the age. For instance, “Boys will be boys” is entirely wrong, for everybody knows they will endeavor to appear like men as much and as soon as possible. —An Irish tailor, making a gentle man’s coat and vest too small, was or dered to take them home and let them out. Some days since the gentleman was told that the garments happened to fit a countryman of his, and was let out at a shilling a week. —“ I lived with him nineteen years,” says an Indiana applicant for divorce, “sand-all the clothes he ever bought me was a bunch of hair pins and a tooth brush.” You can see by this what a hard time she had to keep well dressed. —A very pretty Sunday-school song is the one entitled, “ Put your armor on,my boys.” There is, however, a young lady in our town who doesn’t like to hear it. She says it sounds like, “ Put your arm around me boys,” and it always makes her feel lonesome. —■“ Amen ! amen !” shouted a Cedar Rapids parson at the elegant remarks of a stranger at the camp-meeting. Sud denly the parson turned his eyes on the man, and jumping up, screamed, “Catch him, brothers, catch him! He’s the three-card monte man that got my last month’s salary.” This is a fact, and the monte man is now in jail at Cedar Rapid. —A rural poet thus breaks forth : “ Oh ! the snore, the beautiful snore, fil ling the chamber from ceiling to floor ! Over the coverlet, under the sheet, from her wee dimpled chin to her pretty feet! Now rising aloft like a bee in June ; now sunk to the wail of a cracked bassoon ! Now, flute-like, subsiding, then rising again, is the beautiful snore of Elizabeth Jane.” —l’d like to be an edytur, An’ in mv sancktum stand, The door a standin’ open An’ a big club in my hand ; Then let the cuss who didn’t like Some article I had writ. Come softly’ o’er the threshold, I recken he’d git hit ; I’d hand him one right on the snoot, Among his brains and things, And send him flumixing up thnr To sport a pair ov wings. —She was an elderly lady, and as she seated herself on one of the stools in Witcher’s store and asked to be shown some “ ealiker,” she remarked that when she was a “ gal,” she thought she was powerful lucky if she got sixteen yards in a dress, and she thought it a “ sinful” waste of stuff to put in more ; but she had just “ hearn”that Mrs. X. was agoin’ to hev forty-two yards in her new cali ker, and she hoped there might be a cloud burst in seventeen minutes if that air woman should stare round in church and make remarks about her clothes. “ You kin just cut me off forty-three yards, and I’ll have it made pinback fashion, with an overdress and a square mainsail, and a flvin’jib and back-action; then I’d just like to see that stuck-up Mrs. X. put on airs over me.” —A young man was at a social the other night, and was very profuse in his exhibitions of universal knowledge. He knew all about music, and could play anything. An old gentleman, becoming disgusted with the young buck’s preten tious, remarked that be couldn’t play himself, but he understood the theory of music so well that he could tell what tone a person was fingering by seeing the motions without hearing the sounds. This so astonished the young man that he proposed to test this wonderful power of the elder, and at once drew up to the table and commenced gently fingering as if upon a key-board, remarking that be was now going through one of the most popular airs, and asked the old gen tleman : “ What am I playing now ?” The old gent winked at the girls, and blandly remarked : “ I think you are playing the darned fool, if you are ma king fcne right motions.” HOBBIBLE PHENOMENA. It is generally known, says an old pa per, that in Barbadoes there is a myste rious vault, in which no one now dares to deposit the dead. It is in a Church yard near the seaside. In 1807, the first coffin that was deposited in it was that of a Mr. Goddard ; in 1807, a Miss A. M. Chase was placed in it; and in 1812, Miss D. Chase. In the end of 1812, the vault was opened for the body of the Hon. T. Chase; but the three first coffins were found in a confused state, having been apparently tossed from their places. Again was the vault opened to receive the body of an infant, ami the four cof fins, all of lead, and very heavy, were found much disturbed. In 1816,’ a Mr. Brewster’s body was placed in the vault, and again great disorder was apparent among the coffins. In 1819, a Mr. Clarke was placed in the vault, and, as before, the coffins were in confusion. Each time that the vault w r as opened, the coffins were replaced in their proper situations—that is, three on the ground, side by side, and the others laid on them. The vault was regularly closed ; the door (a massive stone, which required six or seven men to move.) was cemented by masons, and though the floor was sand, there was no marks of footsteeps or wa ter. Again the vault was opened in 1819. Lord Combermere W’as then present, and the coffins were found thrown confused ly about the vault—some with their heads down, and others up. “ W hat could have occasioned this phenomena? In no other vault in the Island has this ever occurred. Was it an earthquake which occasioned it, or the effects of an inundation in the vault? These were the questions asked by a Barbadoes jour nal at this time; and no oue could afford a solution. The matter gradually died away, until the present year, when, on the i6th of February, the vault was again opened, all the coffins were again thrown about as confusedly as before. A strict investi gation took place, and no cause could be discovered. Was it, after all, that the sudden bursting of noxious gas from one of the coffins could have produced this phenomena? If so, it is against all for mer experience. The vault has been her metically sealed again, when to be re opened, we cannot tell. In England there was a parallel oc currence to this some years ago, at Hau ton, in Suffolk. It is stated that on opening a vault there, several leaden cof fins, with wooden cases, which had been fixed on biers, were found displaced, to the great consternation of the villagers. The coffins were again placed as before, and the vault was properly closed when again, another of the family dying, they were again found displaced ; and two years after that, they werenotouly found all off their biers, but one coffin, (so heavy as to require eight men to raise it,) was found on the step which led down the vault; and it seemed perfectly cer tain that no human hands done this. A DETECTIVE'S BLUNDER. A Nevada paper relates this incident: About two months ago a young lawyer of this city and his newly acquired wife were returning from a visit to the Bay. Wearied a triffe with constant billing and cooing, the young husband made some feeble excuse or other and slipped off’ to the smoking car to burn a cigar and think with a sigh of departed bach elor days when he could spit out of the window over his boot toes, with none to say, “ Oh, please, Steve, dear, don’t.” The bride, with rather an injured ex pression, was sitting in her palace car, musing on the waning ardor of her Ste phen, when she suddenly discovered that she was the center of attraction to the whole car. Two rough looking men were standing in the aisle, gazing at her closely, and then referring to a paper which one held in his hands. Before the astonished and indignant lady could col lect her thoughts, one of the men took the vacant seat beside her, and with a knowing wink observed: “ A good get-up, Nancy, but it won’t do. You’re copped dead to rights this time, honey.” “Sir!” grasped the frightened lady, shrinking back into the furthest corner. “ By the big stick,” said the man, ad miringly, “ Nance, you’d ought to agone on the stage. I never see anything bet ter done. But it won’t do. You’ve got to come back with us, Nance, an’ you stand a mighty good chance of goin’ over the bay for five at shortest.” “ Sir, what do you mean ?” demanded Mrs. thoroughly alarmed, and start ing to her feet. “ Will no gentleman protect me from the insults of this fel low ?” Haifa dozen gentleman sprang forward at this appeal. “ Gentleman,” said the man, “ jist ’tend to your own business and I’ll ’tend to mine. I’ve been hunting this bird for two months and more, an’ I’ve got her at last. She puts on a good deal of style, but if you’ve ever heard of Nance Brown,’one of the ’cutest thieves on the coast, here she is. I’d have taken her quietly, but if she wants to make a row it’s her own business. I’m Detective “ Oh, this is intolerable,” cried the poor lady, bursting with indignation and shame. “ Gentlemen, my husband, Mr. ,is on the train. Go find him, for heaven’s sake!” There presently appeared about the wildest-looking lawyer outside of Stock ton. The detectives grinned at the ve hement explanations of the husband,and the other officer warned him to be quiet or he would arrest him for interfering. Fortunately there were several Virgin ians on the train, and they at once iden tified the lawyer as a respectable citizen, though, the marriage being recent, they had not known the lady. The detectives were profuse in their apologies, and got out of the car in double-quick order, looking more sheep ish than any thief-takers have a right to look, and swearing that it was the stran gest resemblance that they had ever seen. —Simon Bouffard, the famous iaj pickers’ banker of Paris, is dead. He was over eighty, and for more than forty year had pursued his calling of lending money to rag-pickers at fifteen per cent, interest, taking whatever rags they might possess as security. In this way he had amassed a fortune of several thousand pounds. His only companions were a cat and a monkey, and when found dead the cat was playing with his head and the monkey had on his cap and spectacles. Having no relatives, his for une goes to the State. MYSTERIES OF THE'TOILET. How a Frenchwoman Hakes Herself Beau tiful-Passing for Thirty at Fifty. [From the Metropolitan.] I had the pleasure yesterday of assist ing—that is to say, looking on, not help ing—at the toilet of a French woman, a genuine Parisian. I was a good deal surprised, that I admit; and she was a good deal surprised at my surprise. She imagines that the extremes of artificial ity arrived at in Paris—mak ing a sort of dual woman, as it were, out of one —were known to us ; aud she considered us semi-barbarians since she discovered how much nearer the natural state wc are. She began, my Francaise, by submit ting herself to her maid, who on her part began by subjecting herself to a face friction of elder flower water. This accomplished, the previously sallow face became of a dearer hue, an ivory yellow. Every particle of impurity in the pores had yielded to the influence of the elder flower water, with which half a goblet of warm water had been mixed. The throat, neck and hands had partook of this refreshing dew, adding a lustre to the freshness given by a tepid bath of twenty minutes and a shower bath of five, gone through with a half hour be fore the beginning of the mysteries of dressing, or the “ getting up.” Next came a rubbing of a scented iris powder in the dark hair, which was short—that is to say, not more than a foot and a half long—and rather thick. When the iris-powder was brushed out and carefully removed at the temples aud the nape of the neck, a delicate creme , similar to cold-cream, but without lard—the juice of lettuce being its main ingredient—was laid over the whole skin of neck, face and hands, and allowed to remain ten minutes. This, I was inform ed, was intended to do away with the contraction of the features arising from want of sleep, which waut of sleep had arisen from too much cafe noir at din ner. I had not observed any “ contrac tion des traits ,” and thought within my self how much fancy would do. The Parisian informed me that camphor and creme had a similar composing effect up on the features, especially after the fa tigues of a ball. The next thing done was the removal of every trace of the creme with an ex tremely fine linen cloth. This was a skilful operation, for while rubbing the skin into satin-like smoothness the femme-dc-chambre did not make it red or in any way roughen its surface. She seemed to polish and in polishing to whiten her mistress’s complexion. The next process was the application of veloutine, a compound of bismuth and rice powder, having the fixative quality of the first and the delicacy of the last ingredient. But ah ! the care with which the maid applied the preparation. It was absolutely impossi ble, in being thus laid on, to detect the presence of any foreign aid. The skin had the firm, clear whiteness of alabas ter, with a suggestion of sunny lustre and creaminess to subdue it. Then came the grand affair of the eye brows. These were brushed with a mi nute soft brush, with dark bristles and a handle inlaid with mother of pearl, and the least possible tracing of fard indien from a small stone jar laid upon them. Under the eyes—very fine eyes, and needing no aid from art—an estampe of leather, upon which the fard indien was lightly rubbed, laid now a dusky shad ow, which increased the brilliancy of the eyes to a great, and, to my mind, un pleasant degree. What was to become of this appliance in case of emotion I cannot say. Perhaps a French woman only cries when she chooses. The neck and hands now partook of the bismuth powder whitening, and af ter the hair was dressed very low on the neck, frizzed a little over the forehead, and with less addition of false hair than has been customary for years. A small natte of permanently crimped black hair, looped with a white ivory comb cut in cameo medallions, made up this part of the toilet, only one small ringlet being suffered to play about the neck. But it was when the large peignoir was removed, and the under toilet began, that astonishment claimed me for its own. First, a corset, of course, you will say. But, let me remark, there are corsets and corsets. The one placed above the delicate garment of flesh-colored raw silk, which takes the place of linen with the elegantes of Paris, and clings to the form so in no way to increase the size by bulk of folds around the waist, was a corset of gray silk, stitched with rose color and edged with Valenciennes on the hips and about the shoulders. But in tlie make of this “ article of female wear” there entered art that amounted to genius. For, set in at the hips and making the bustle, were curved bones that stood out in a swell of several inches and formed an incorporate part of the corset itself, impossible of detection when the skirt of her dress was placed over it. Then the flesh-colored silk stockings; the short cambric skirt with myriad tucks, insertions, and flutings of lace ; the deli cate bottines of black satin ; the white muslin dress, without assistance of color except a rose at the throat, and made so extremely short in front as to display the entire foot; the one long hair pin, with its head une prosse perle fine, and the careless drawing up of the draping at VOL II—NO. 2. one side to display the underskirt of raw silk ; this ami the toilet were an accom plished feat and fact. Let me not omit to say that the muslin sleeve was so extremely tight to the arm that it seemed like a second skiu. It ter minated two inches above the well-roun ded yet delicate wrist, where a quaint bracelet of West Indian beetles, the cadeau of a lady admirer from Cuba, completed the ornamentation of so much studied simplicity. It was really very pretty, and the lady looked charming—let us say thirty years old. Her age ? Oh—well, fifty. A Kentucky Mummy.—The Louis ville Courier-Journal says : The discov ery of a female mummy in Grand Aven ue cave, near Glasgow Junction, Barren county, by Eugene Proctor, is attracting the attention of the archaeologists of the country. It is that of a woman four feet and five inches in length. When found it was lying on its lelt side in a sleeping posture. The left arm was resting on the ground, but the left hand had disap peared. The right arm rests on the bosom with the hand tucked under the chin. The flesh on the arms and lower limbs is shrunken, but the body and head are well preserved. The face is round and lull, and, a correspondent says, “ very beautiful.” It is perfectly white and shows no Indian characteristics in form or feature. The mouth is small, and the lips are partly open, exhibiting the front teeth. It shows unmistakable evidence of having been in its present position for an indefinite period of time. Crowds are flocking to see it, but no one has yet been able to tell to what race of human beings it belongs. A Kentucky Family.—The fortunes or misfortunes of a certain Kentucky family might form the plot of a French novel. Many years since, the wife of a wealthy and distinguished man, in a fit of insanity, threw her two little sons out of a lofty window of her beautiful home. One died, the other was unharmed. The mother was committed to a lunatic asy lum, where she remained many vears without recovering. By his wealth and political influence the husband procured an act of the Legislature by which he became divorced from his unfortunate wife. In the meanwhile, the son, whom the mother had thrown from the window, had become affianced to a lovely girl; but she jilted him and married his fa ther, who gave her most of his vast es tate. Finally, the father died, the first wife recovered and sued the second wife for the property, assisted by her son, whose early love for his stepmother Wats turned to gall by her unfaithfulness, and transferred to the mother who attempted to deprive him of life. m ■# mm Playing at Hanging.—The little children of a gentleman living near Maryville concluded a few days since to have a little fun by playing Webb. The arrangements as made and agreed to by all concerned were about as follows: A Sheriff was named, who was to do the hanging ; one of the party agreed to be John Webb, who was to be hanged by the Sheriff, and after he had hanged enough he was to halloa that the Sheriff and others might take him down. The others were to be friends and mourners of Mr. Webb. The arrangements all the would-be Webb was launched forth betwixt heaven and earth, with a promise to halloa when he had enough, and the friends set up a general lamen tation for their friend Webb. Webb continued to hang, and the mourners continued their mourning. Then the performance happened to be noticed by some of the women of the family, who arrived iu time to save the boy. He was dying without a groan. A Wonder of Nature in Florida. For many years past there has been no ticed a column of smoke or steam rising irom the Gulf coast, in Waukalla county. A short time since, Judge White and a party of gentleman in Leon and Gadsden counties formed an expedition to reach, if’ possible, the undiscovered wonder. They started from St. Marks in a sail boat, and made their way eastward to the mouth of Pinhook Creek. One of the party says: “ The coast here is very singular, and suggests the presence of volcanic action at some time in the remote past. We look upon it as a favorable indication of the volcano we were in search of. The bed of the river is a mass of rock, and two miles from its mouth its whole vol ume is vomitted up with immense force from the yawning jaws of a rifted rock. Here the river proper terminates and then commences a series of sinks, which extend for twenty miles back.”— Semi- Tropical Monthly. Making a Choice.—A gentleman living up the bay says that a negro man, his wife, and four children were forced to take a tree to save themselves during the late storm. The tree swayed to and fro with the violence of the wind, and threatened to fall with its heavy burdeu. The old couple concluded that someone must be sacrificed to save the rest. Af ter a cousultation the old women said she was not prepared to die, and urged the old man to drop himself into eterni ty. But he, too, wasn’t ready, and the matter was compromised by launching the two youngest children into the surging waters. A few hours after they were rescued, and the old negro told the story himself to those who saved him. Colonists, Emigrant# and Trav elers Westward. —For map circulars, condensed time tables and general information in regard to transportation facilities to all points in Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri, Min nesota, Colorado, Kansas, Texas, lowa, New Mexico, Utah and California, apply to or address Albert B. Wrens, General Rail road Agent, Office Atlanta, Ga. No one should go West without first getting in communication with the General R. R. Agent, aud become informed as to superior advantages, cheap and quick transportation of families, household goods, stock, and farming implements generally. All information cheer fully given. W. L. DANLEY, G. P. <fc T. A. io For Bargain* in Checks, Stripes, Shir ings, Ticking, and anything else in his line, > all on R. S. Martin. Remember the place. o Take Notice. —Strictly Pure White Lead, Linseed Oils, Turpentine, Ready Mixed Paints, Varnishes, Brushes, Window Glass and Putty at lowest prices at Longs & Bil lups’, Druggists. THE OGLETHORPE ECHO ADVERTISING. First insertion (j>cr inch space) $1 00 Each subsequent insertion /5 A liberal discount allowed those advertising for a longer period than three month*. Cara of lowest contract rates carl be Hal oil appli' cation to the Proprietor. Local Notices 15c. per line first insertion) and 10c. per line thereafter. Tributes of Respect, Obituaries, etc., 50c, oer inch. Announcements, $5; in advance. MISCELLANEOUS, WM. WALSMAN, Fashionable Tailor, Would respectfully inform the public, anti his old friends of Oglethorpe and Elbert, that lie is now located on Clavton street. Athens, Ga*. and is fully prepared to do work in his usual satisfactory manner. sep3-tf T. R. & W. CHILDERS, Carpanters and Builders, ATHENS, - - - - GEORGIA, Are prepared to do all manner of work iri their line in the best manner. Parties iff Oglethorfte wishing building done will save money by addressing them. nov27-ly Fine Boots & Shoes HENRY LUTHI, /UIAWFORD, GA., IS NOW PREPARED Y > to make, at short notice, the FINEST BOOTS and SHOES. I use only the best material, and warrant my work to give entire satisfaction, both as to finish am! wear, REPAIRING AND COARSE WORK also attented to. octfi-iy LITTLE STORE-CORNER HERE THE CITIZENS OF OGLETHORPE will alway And the Cheapest und Best Stock of FANCY GOODS, LIQUORS, GROCERIES, LAMPS, OIL, ETC. J. M. BAEBY. Broad Str., Athens, Ga# ,aj>9-tf • ROAN HOUSE] LEXINGTON, GA. rpilE UNDERSIGNED HAS OPENED A Hotel iit Lexington, Ga., and is now pre pared to entertain the traveling public in a hospitable manner. The beds are comforta ble, and the table furnished -.rith the bt the market affords. piS" A No. 1 STABLE in connection with the Hotel, where stock Will receive good attention. Don’t forget to stop at the Roan House, oft the Public Square. E. I). ROAN, Prop f. General Wet Agenci RAILROAD TICKETS For sale, by all routes, to all principal point# In the United States* Buy your Tickets in Athens, and get all information from Capt, WM, WILLIAMS, Agent Southern Express Cos., Athens,Ga, Go to Davis’ Gallery, IN ATHENS, IF YOU WANT OLD PICTURES COPIED and EKURGED With RELIABLE and Guaranteed work, At 25 Per Cent. Less than Foreign Companies. jan29-tf W. A. TALMADGE. F. P. TALMADGB, W. A. TALMADGE & CO., DEALERS IN WATCHES, CLOCKS-AND JEWELBT, SILVER AND PLATED WARE, Nnsical Instruments, Cutlery, CANES, GUNS AND PISTOLB. 4*9- Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Guns and Pistols REPAIRED in the lest manner and warranted. General ENGRAVING done with dispatch. Sole agents for J. MOSES* ELECTRO GALVANIC SPECTACLES^ College Avenue, Opposite Post Office, aprSO-tf ATHENS, GA. 150,000 CIGARS NOW IN STORE, OF THE Choicest Brands 1 which we offer at GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. Also, a large stock of SMOKING AND CHEWING TOBACCO, SNUFF, GENUINE MEERCHAUM PIPES AND ALL SMOKERS’ ARTICLES. A liberal discount allowed to Jobbers buy ing largely. Come one ! Come all!! KALVARINSKY & LIEBLER, Under Newton House, Athens, Ga, JOIT. M. 111, Lexington, Ga. f Dealer in all kinds of meb- CHANDISE. Will sell CHEAP as the CHEAPEST. lie has the Q rQT of goods in every line. Be certain | to call and examine before purchasing elsewhere. Defies competition in BOOTS AND SHOES Or Clothing. “Old Ladies’ ” Shoes A SPECIALTY. Fine Dress Goods SI p Cent, Under Cost, Come and See! sep24-tf Indelible Transfer Paper, FOR MARKING LINEN WITHOUT A PREPARATION. * * Directions—Lay a of TrtoAt Pn per on the article to Ik* marked over it a piece of writing paper inium whisk write with a lead p-jicil or 2? jJSSTh fKiint. Press with a hot iron/ and the article can then oe washed with hot water and^oaa as usual. Sent by mail on receipt of pS? oO cent*. For sale at * BURKE’S BOOK STORE, Athens, <ja % * % *