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BRIEFLETS.
The World In n Xnt Khell-Loteirt Xews.
—A Kansas man lias a farm of 57G,000
acres.
—“ Whiskey Frauds”—Men who say
“chalk it,” and never pay.
—Germany is now preparing for a tus
sle with the Russian bear.
—Nebraska has produced a cucumber
five feet eight inches in length.
—A tree in Ceylon is said to have been
standing more than 2,000 years.
—The Golden Age is defunct. Gone
to meet Theodore’s mother-in-law.
— l Charleston lues 56,540 inhabitants —
82,012 colored and 24,528 whites.
—A Massachusetts man, last week,
knocked his wife down and then poured
boiling water on her.
—A New York man. with the help of
his little son, makes 8480 a month catch
ing lrogs for market.
■ -'n St. Pierre, British North Ameri
ca, a iamily ol seven were murdered and
robbed ol over a million dollars.
—jLvery day we hear of Beecherism
among ministers. We think a little lynch
law would have a cooling elicet.
—The latest development in Brooklyn
religion is the arrest of a young man for
embezzling 8500 worth of Bibles.
A ]o. ta! card passed through the
mails th-. utiu i (.lay, written on one sine
only, and eon:a.ning 15,000 words.
—An English traveller has discovered
a 1 a 1 ul u war is, on the island of Cey
lon. to whom laughter is unknown.
—A 'hocking account of tlie maltreat
ment ol Jews comes from Bagdad. One
Jew was burned alive by the populace.
—A New York paper advertises “A
child for adoption, to be horn in Decem
ber.” It does not state whether boy or
girl.
—They have discovered the boss bull
frog near Montreal. He is as large as a
cow’s head, and his croak is as loud as a
dog’s bark.
—A Massachusetts woman, 25 years of
age, was married at 12 years old, lias ten
living children, the eldest of whom is 13
years old.
—A New York boy, charged with kill
inf an unborn child by kicking its moth
er, pleaded guilty of manslaughter in the
fourth degree.
—A race has recently been discovered
in the interior of Africa, perfectly white
and with eyes as large as saucers. So a
New York paper says.
—A Shrievcport physicial permitted a
friend to shoot a bottle from his head,
lie aimed too low, and the Doctor now
sleeps with his fathers.
—To prevent postage stamps from
sticking together while being carried in
the pocket, rub the side with the muci
lage on it over the hair.
—lt is estimated that the cost of Solo
mon’s Temple was $87,212,152,000. This
is enough to pay the present indebted
ness of the world four times over.
—The experiment is about to be made
of using paper for the construction of
wheels for drawing-room cars on one of
the railways of New York.
—The public debts in America, exclu
sive of that of the National Government,
foots up $1,331,970,000, which is a local
indebtedness of S3O per capita for all.
—A New Jersey woman fell out with
her husband, and in order to spite him
laid down on the railroad track. The
train came along and settled the matter.
—A fair Sicilian maiden lately got on
top of a house in Palermo, aimointed
herself with oil of petroleum, and burned
herself alive because her father’s coach
man wouldn’t marry her.
—lt is said that the game of chess was
invented by a tender woman, more than
2,000 years ago. fcShe was a queen, and
played the first game with the teeth she
lull! extracted from one of her enemies.
—A Chicago man kicked a minister
ou o’ his house for insisting on
praying with his sick wife when
the physicians ordered that she be
ice; qu! (. The woman died, and the
m;,: utiL r arrest for murder.
—as 1 inomcr has predicted that
.he ra th i short.y to be destroyed by
voie:. ~ -c , on\ tosinns. From the number
of , ru: nous ih.w taking place all over
this ■ . we are had to fear that he
n . is for bis assertion.
-i _ ii,o rocont Hood in Texas, an
>m eo i mi mine, who weighed fully 200
j'Our.u.-, was the lucky possessor of a well
tilled leather-bed. When the water inva
ded her premises she launched the bed,
placed herself in the middle of it, and
was tioated to a place of safety.
—Twelve cents a pound for his crop
this year, will pat the planter better
than fifteen cents for the crop of last sea
son, as his running expenses have been
by economy very considerably reduced,
while the store articles lie is compelled
to buy have fallen some 20 per cent, in
price.
—A New Orleans hen was buried by
her owner in his garden. A short time
after, in passing the spot, he noti
ced that the ground was broken and by
the grave stood a little chick. The sun’s
warm rays hatched it, the defunct biddy
having died with a fully developed egg
in her ova.
—A woman in New York, not long
since, whom her husband threatened to
disinherit if she did not bring forth an
heir, aud failing so to do, purchased the
illegitimate child of a school-girl, and so
successfully imitated child-birth that the
husband was completely deceived. The
nurse exposed the fraud last week.
—An Austrian is exhibiting in Paris a
canine quartet, lie has four dogs, and
he has taught each dog to bark in two
notes, and each dog’s notes are different
from those of the other dogs. He thus
commands eight notes, and gives “Le
donne mobile” and some other pieees.
—A youth of nine years, in Pennsyl
vania, while in company with some more
boys, picked up a piece of unslaeked
lime, and after wetting it, put it in his
pocket, Before the clothes could be torn
oft' the child, he was burned so badly
around the lower part of his person that
the physicians have little hope of his re
covery. 11c wet the lime to make a ball.
BY T. L. GANTT.
DEVILTRIES.
Tli> Uacicst. I.utcM and Best WitirUins.
•—A highly intelligent dog—the type
setter.
—Ode to my landlady—two week’s
board bill.
—Epitaph for a cannibal—“ One who
loved his fellow men.”
—The Danburv Xeim says, if rocks
ever bled, they would bleed quartz.
—The “ army of the Cu-cumber land,”
was the name given it by a stuttering
man.
—Figures won’t lie, but cotton, whale
bone and old newspapers will make them
stretch the truth.
—An engineer from the Black Hills
reports gold at twenty cents a cord and
bread at sll a crumb.
—ln a Scotch court a witness swore to
the identity of a chicken “from its re
semblance to its mother.”
—Trim ’em down in front, as long as
the texture will stand it ! Pull ’em back
—pull till the last thread snaps!
—“ The fool and his money are soon
parted.” That accounts for the extreme
poverty that prevails everywhere.
—The person who composed “ O, For
a Thousand Tongues” passed most of his
boyhood in molasacs hogsheads on the
wharf.
—Never waste a fly in huckleberry
season. One fly in a plate of huckle
berries contains more nutriment than
three berries.
—“ Green-backs” and “tie-backs” are
the most popular inventions of the day ;
it is generally conceded that they both
need expansion.
—A Kentucky editor tells another,
that if his head was as red as his nose he
would remind one of a bow-legged car
rot surmounted by a cockade.
—A Baltimore girl the other day tried
that good, old,time-honored plan of light
ing the kitchen tire with kerosene. Noth
ing has benzine of her since.
—A woman is very like a kettle, if you
come to think of it. She sings away so
pleasantly—then she stops—and, when
you least expects it, she boils over !
—A Harrisburg paper informs its rea
ders that “ when a gentleman and lady
are walking together upon the street, the
lady should walk inside the gentleman.”
—Letter from an English insurance
Inan : “ Dear Sir—l hope to give you a
call 011 Wednesday, on my way to Chard,
and shall be delighted to take your life.”
—I slept in ail editor’s bed last night,
When no editor chanced to he nigh ;
And 1 thought us 1 tumbled that editor’s
nest,
How easily editors lie,
—Many married men will conceive a
great respect for the Fiji Islander when
they are informed that he begins
his housekeeping by eating up his moth
er-in-law.
’ —The Danbury Sews man has been
shown the genuine five cent piece that
Benjamin Franklin didn’t have when
he started life, and he lias every reason
to believe it genuine.
—Child—Does the Lord take the pa
pers? Mother—No, my child ; why do
you ask ? Child—Oh, 1 thought lie
didn’t, it takes our minister so long to
tell him about tilings.
—When an Indiana girl gets tired of a
lover and determins to dismiss him, she
doesn’t throw much fresco work into her
speech : “ I guess you can pull off now,
Sam,” is her icy remark ; “ this egg won’t
hatch.”
—“ llow art you Smith ?” said Jones
—Jones pretended not to know him, and
answered hesitatingly, “ Sir, you have
the advantage oi me.” “ Yes, I suppose
so, everybody lias that’s got. common
sense.”
—Scene in the Central Market. Butch
er—“ Have some fresh meat this morn
ing ?” Lady—“No, no; I have had
fresh meat for a week hack.” Butcher—
“ Never heard it being used, Madam, for
that complaint before.”
—The Clearfield Fair consisted of a
calf, a goose and a pumpkin. It rained
so hard the first night that the goose
swam off, the calf broke loose and eat
the pumpkin,' and a thief, prowling
around, stole the calf, and that ended the
Fair.
—There may be, and doubtless is, a
wide difference as to the time in life at
which a person should begin church go
ing ; hut we have never been able to see
much eternal fitness in the attendance of a
young lady at the fascinating age of two
months.
—“ I say, Sambo, where did you get
de shirt studs ?” “ In de shop, to be sure.”
“ Yah, you just told me you had no
money.” “ l)at’s right.” “ How did
you git dem den ?” “ Well, I saw on a
card in de window * collar studs,’ so I
went in and collared dem.”
—A young gentleman, very conceited
and vain of himself, with a face much
pitted by the small-pox, was not long
since addressed by a friend, who, after
admiring him for sometime said: “ When
carved work comes into fashion, you’ll
be the handsomest man I ever put my eyes
on.”
—A Westerly (B. I.) clergyman mar
ried a couple the other night, received
his fee and sent them away, apparently
satisfied, but the next morning the
bridegroom returned and said that he
had come to pay more, as the woman had
turned out to be much better than he ex
pected.
—A Western editor, thinking to stock
his depleted larder, advertised, “ Poultry
taken in exchange for advertising.” The
villainous compositor, seeing his oppor
tunity to pay up a long-standing grudge,
set it up, “Poetry taken in exchange for
advertising;” and since that time the
office boy "lias been clearing fifty cents a
day from the waste-paper man.
—The head of a New York mercan
tile house was bragging rather largely of
the amount of business done by his firm.
“ You may judge of extent, said he, when
I tell you that the quills of our corres
pondence cost two thousand dollars a
year.” “ Fooh !” said a clerk of another,
who was sitting by, “ what is that to our
correspondence, when I save four thou
sand dollars in ink from merely omitting
to dot the i’s?”
CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 22, 1875.
BURIED FOR A MONTH
A Trance .Vfeiiiuiii Among the Indian
Jugglers--Strange Indeed.
[From the New York Sun.]
Some years ago, when in India, I visi
ted the Rajate of Puttiala, wherein resi
ded a rich and powerful Baboo, by name
Lull Chuuder. This gentleman was fond
occasionally of entertaining his friends
with various exhibitions of native cun
ning, including genuine necromancy,
and to this end invited a magician of
note, one Meechum Doss, to give an ex
hibition of his powers of being buried
alive and then exhumed and resuscita
ted after some time had elapsed. Mee
chum Doss was to receive a considerable
sum in silver rupees for the performance,
and the time named by himself to be
“quietly iuurned” was four weeks.
On a certain day the Baboo having
called his friends together in durbar or
court, they came from all parts
to witness the show. The divan of
the Baboo was in the centre of a circle,
while all the greater and lesser magnates
sat around enjoying their hookahs, and
elated with the noise of the tumtum wal
lahs and the excitement of the nuutch
dancers which were preliminary to the
main object of the exhibition. Near the
centre of the circle a grave, zealously
guarded, some five or six feet deep, had
been prepared, and by it a coffin was
placed. In due time the blowing of
trumpets and the sounding of gongs an
nounced the advent of Meechum Doss,
lie was dressed, as magicians usually are
in the East, very plainly, but very well;
a middle aged man in fine linen, who
looked as if be fared sumptuously every
day, though curried rice eatec with the
fingers was doubtless his only food. He
descended from the gayly caparisoned
elephant on which he bad travelled and
made many gracious salaams to the as
sembled crowd. Having invited a full
inspection of liimself, the coffin and
grave, he proceeded to perform various
incantations by the aid of a fire which
he khidled, and into which lie threw
what appeared to be aromatic spices. He
then spread over himself a garment on
w hich lie pronounced magical words.
All the time a committee, of which I
was a member, appointed for the pur
pose by the Baboo, was watching his
every move very closely. At length, af
ter various turns and twists of his body,
which were sometimes very violent, he
appeared to lapse into a rigid state, with
liis eyes and mouth closed, alter which
he foil hack into the arms of an atten
dant Mephistopheles who accompanied
him. He was now placed in the coffin,
which was securely closed and sealed.
Then commenced the process of lower
ing the casket some five feet, which was
done in a maimer that would have ex
cited the envy of New York undertakers.
The hole was filled up and well battered
down, guards provided by Baboo Lall
Chuuder being placed over it.
After the interment, notice was given
that exhumation would take place four
weeks thereafter, at which all were invi
ted to be present. The tum-tum wallahs
and the nautli girls resumed tlicir opera
tions and noise, and the immense crowd
dispersed in a very orderly manner on
the camels, elephants and horses.
At the time appointed I was again
present, when the same initiatory cere
monies were enacted as at the burying,
and everything was as before, except
that the people looked solemn and talk
ed in whispers, wondering among them
selves whether necromancy could make
the grave give back her dead.
The sentries who had kept guard and
watch were paraded, and testified that
they had done so faithfully for four
weeks. The grave was then dug into un
til the coffin was reached.
Everything was found in order out
side, and upon the coffin being raised
the seals, which were of metal, were
found untouched. The box was opened,
and there reclined Meechum Doss look
ing tranquil. He was taken out. His
body and face presented the chilliness
and rigidity of death, but there were no
signs of decomposition. According to or
ders given by him to his familiar before
burial, he was well ehampooed from head
to foot and given some decoction to swal
low upon returning animation, which oc
curred in a very short space of time.
External heat appearing, the limbs
became gradually relaxed, and then the
opening of the eyes, which had a sort of
somnolent appearances.
Shortly after the elixir had been giv
en him he stood up in his right mind
and salaamed to the committee and those
around him. When asked how he felt,
and where he had been to, he said that
Brahmah was good, and that he had en
joyed close fellowship with their God
ships Brahmah and Vishnu iu the bosom
of the sacred rivers and on the tops of the
mountains.
An Outrageous Tramp.
A short distance from West Troy, in
the town of Watervliet, resides a farmer
named Stevens Thomas, whose family
consists of his wife and only daughter,
Carrie. About four o’clock ou Monday
evening, Mr. Thomas and his wife drove
to Troy ou some business iu the old farm
wagon, leaving Carrie, who is about
twenty-three years old, to take care of
the house in their absence, as she had
often done before. About half-past sev
en o’clock a tall, lank individual made
his appearance. Miss Thomas thought
he was a tramp, and, being alone, refused
him admission. He first coaxed her to
open the door, and, when that was of no
avail, thought to force it, and threatened
to burn the house jxnless he was admitted.
He finally crept into a window in the
rear of the house. The young woman
uttered a sharp scream, and the next mo
ment she was knocked down and the
ruffian attempted an outrage. She strug
gled bravely and grasped hold of his
beard. The ruffian struck her in the
face aud again tried to effect his purpose.
She seized him by the hair and he begged
for mercy, and, uothstanding his unmer
ciful treatment of her, she let go of him.
He fell to the floor exhausted for a few
minutes and then pursued the girl, who
had fled from the house, and succeeded
catching her before she got out of the
yard. He beat her until she was insen
sible, and then left her. In the jostle
with the brave girl a printer’s rule fell
out of his pocket. Her father returned
a few minutes after, and, with the neigh
bors, scoured the country for the ruffian.
Miss Thomas had two of her front teeth
broken, got one of her eyes blacken
ed, aud sustained severe bruises on the
head and face, in addition to having her
clothes all torn.— Troy Times.
TENNESSEE PIGMIES.
(Iravcs of an Extinct Race of I.illipu
tians—t nrioiiN Disi-OTcrin in the-Ten
nessee Mountains.
t
Haywood, in his very interesting his
tory of Tennessee, tells of a race of pig
mies which existed hundreds of years
ago in the vicinity of McMinnville and
{Sparta, where their cemeteries are yet to
be found, though many of them have
been torn up by the plow of the indus
trious farmer of the present day.
By the request of l’rof. Henry, of the
Smithsonion Institute, John R. Li Hard
left here last Sunday morning, tqjjsee
whether he could not unearh a skele
ton to be placed on exhitiou at that in
stitution. Monday, he went to Hickory
Bottom, five miles out from Sparta, and
examined,on the farms of Messrs. Spence
and Wilson, about twenty graves, all of
which had been previously opened and
everything they contained taken out.
Mr. Wilson, one of the oldest citizens in
that locality, informed him that graves
were first discovered in 1820. The early
settlers found them to average 224 by 14
inches wide and 12 inches in depth. The
graves are formed of sandstone rock,
which is found, not in the valleys where
the graves are located, but on the top of
the mountains. From ail that could be
learned, this race of people must have
lived as least three or four centuries ago.
Thursday morning, accompanied by
Dr. J. W. Sawyer, Mr. Li Hard went to
Doyle’s farm, and beside the grave out of
which Haywood obtained a skeleton dur
ing His researches, he obtained the bones
of a pigmy. One of the graves has a
head-stone, a limestone rock,a thing un
usual. By this particular mark it is pre
sumed the remains must have been that
of a noted person of the race. 111 the
one in which he obtained the fragmentary
portions of what was left of a pigmy,
Mr. Li Hard found remnants of pottery
which shows signs of having once been
filled with charcoal. This grave had
never before been opened. From the
manner in which the remains lay it is
supposed the body must have been inter
red in a sitting position.
The measurement of this skeleton is
twenty-six inches in height. The thigh,
arm, ribs, and, in fact, all the bones are
small, the full set of teeth showing at the
same time that they must have belonged
to an adult. The thigh bones are a lit
tle larger than a man’s forefinger.
Mr. Lillard shipped the bones, on his
arrival here last night, to the Smithso
nian Institute.
He also brought with him a beautiful
ly polished stone pestle, used by the In
dians, perhaps, centuries ago, in pound
ing their corn into meal. It is the best
specimen of such implements that we
have ever seen.
A Touching Incident.
The struggle to keep up appearances
is one of the saddest things in the world,
any way, and it has added mournfulness
when the child is the actor in the usually
hopeless endeavor. Just before the close
of last session of the public schools in {St.
Louis, an incident took place which, as
au illustration, is more than touching.
At one of the schools numbers of the pu
pils were in the habit of bringing a lunch
eon with them, which at noon they ate
together.
Among those who did not go home for
dinner, the teacher in a peculiar room
noticed a little girl who always sat look
ing wistfully at her playmates when they
went out with their luncheon, hut who
never brought any herself. The child
was always neatly but plainly clad, and
one of the closest of students in school
hours. This odd action of the child’s
lasted some time, when one day the teach
er noticed that the little thing had ap
parently brought her dinner with her.
The noon hour came and the children
took their lunch as usual and went out
to eat it, the little girl referred to alone
remaining in the room with her dinner
wrapped up in a paper on the desk. The
teacher advanced to the child and asked
her why she didn’t go out to eat with
the rest, at the same time putting out her
hand toward the package on the desk.
Quick as thought, the girl clasped her
hands over it and exclaimed sobbing :
“ Don’t touch it, teacher, ; and don’t
tell, please ! It’s only blocks !”
And that was the fact. Haying 110
dinner,to bring, and being too proud to
reveal the poverty of her family, the
child had carefully wrapped up a num
ber of small blocks in paper, and brought
the package, to present the appearance
of a lunch. It was nothing ; a mere rid
iculous school life ; but it
was sufficient to make one who hears the
story feel badly.
Ancient Wall in Mississippi.
About eighteen miles from Port Gib
son and one mile from Brandywine
Springs, on the place of Mr. O’Quin, the
existence of a great number of blocks of
cut stone has been known for an indefi
nite time, and the people in the neigh
borhood have used them for props for
their houses. Mr. James Gage, Jr., went
out there a few days ago to explore, and
had a specimen stone brought into town.
It is about three feet long, by about
twenty inches square, resembling in shape
a bar of soap. It is probably a native
sandstone. Mr. Gage took this block
from beneath the roots of a large pine
tree. It formed a portion of a wall about
twenty feet broad on*the top, which Mr.
Gage traced for a distance of two hundred
and fifty yards. The inference that one
would naturally draw from this super
ficial view is that this must have been n.
city wall, but deep exploration might
show it to be a portion of a fort, temple
or other building. Anyway, its antiquity
is probably immense, antedating the his
tory of the red men.
A Waterspout.
A correspondent of the Globe-Democrat
at Los Cruces, New Mexico, says a tre
mendous water-spout suddenly appeared
in the hills about a mile back of the towu
at 5:30 p. M. on the 11th of September,
and before the citizens had time to com
prehend the calamity, it was upon them.
The tall, dark column, composed of wa
ter and dust, approached with such ve
locity, that in less than ten minutes from
the time of its observance, and before
ten dollars’ worth of personal property
could be saved by any one of the inmates,
sixty-three houses had been hurled to
the ground. The streets were soon cov
ered to a depth of four or five feet with
water, aud the current was of such great
strength that boulders of a large size and
corresponding weight were carried away.
IMPORTANT.
Information Worth a Year's Subscrip
tion to the •• Kclto""— Preserve This.
A man walks 3 miles in an hour; h
horse trots 7 ; steamboats run 18 ; sailing
vessels 10 ; slow rivers flow 4 ; rapid riv
ers 7 ; moderate wind blows 7 ; storm
moves 36; hurricane, SO; a rifle ball,
1,000; sound, 743; light, 190,000; elec
tricity, 280,000. A barrel of Hour weighs
190 pounds; a barrel of pork, 200 ; bar
rel of rice, 000 ; barrel of powder, 20 ;
firkin of butter, 50; tub of butter, 84.
Wheat, beans, and clover -seed, 60
pounds to the bushel; corn, rye and
flaxseed, 50; buckwheat, 02; barley,
48 ; oats, 35 ; bran, 20 ; timothy seed,
48 ; coarse salt, 85. Sixty drops make a
drachm, 8 drachms an ounce, 4 ounces
a gill, 4 gills a pick, 00 drops a table
spoonful, 4 teaspooufulls a tablespoon
ful or half an ounce, 2 tablespoonfuls an
ounce, 8 tablespoonfuls a gill, two gills
a coffee cup or tumbler, 0 fluid ounces
a teacup fill. Four thousand eight hun
dred and forty square yards an acre ;
a square mile, 040 acres. To measure
an acre : 209 feet on each side making a
square acre within an inch. There are
2,750 languages. Two persons die every
second. A generation is 15 years;
average of life, 31 years. The standing
army in Prussia, war times, 1,200,000;
France, 1,300,000; Russia, 1,000,000;
Austria, 825,000 ; Italy, 200,000 ; Spain,
100,000; Belgium, 94,000; England, 75,-
000; United States, 24,000. Roman
Catholics in the United States, 5,000,-
000. Mails in New York City are 100
tons per day. New York consumes
000 heaves daily, 700 calves, 20,000
sheep, and 20,000 swine in winter.
The following are the salaries received
by the leading monarchs of the world.
Alexander 11., $9,152,000, or $25,000 a
day ; Abdul Azir, $9,000,000, or SIB,OOO
a day ; Francis Joseph, $4,000,000, or
$10,050 a day ; Fredrick William 11.,
$3,000,000, or $8,210 a day: Victoria,
$2,2000,000, or $0,840 a day ; Leopold,
SOOO,OOO, or $1,040 a day. In addition to
this salary each of these individuals is
furnished with a dozen or more first-class
houses to live in without any charge of
rent. The term “ car-load” is very gen
erally used, but few people know how
much it is. Asa general rule, 20,000
pounds, or 70 barrels of salt, 70 of lime,
90 of flour, 00 of whisky, 200 sacks of
flour, 5 cords of soft wood, 18 to 20 head
of cattle, 50 to 60 head of hogs, 80 to 100
head of sheep, 9,000 feet of solid boards,
17,000 feet of siding, 13,000 feet of floor
ing, 40,000 shingles, one-half less of hard
lumber, one-fourth less green lumber,
one-tenth of joists, scantling, and all oth
er large timber, 340 bushels of wheat,3oo
of corn, 680 of oats, 400 of barley, 360 of
flax-seed, 360 of apples, 430 of Irish po
tatoes, or 1,000 bushels of bran make a
car-load.
Hark Twain’s Dying Bequest*
An incident of Mark Twain’s California
life is thus related by the Sonoma Demo
crat: Sam Clemens, while a resident of
Jackass Hill, in this county, became im
bibed with the idea that his future ex
istence depended upon a sight of the Big
Trees ; so one day he started, accompa
nied by his mining partner. After pass
ing Murphy’s’the “ lay of the country”
became unfamiliar to the travelers, and
as night closed upon them they came to
the conclusion that they were not only
lost, but that the prospects of food and
shelter for the night were as slim as they
well.could be. They had followed a
wood road to the summit of a chapparel
crcwned hill, and did not know which
way to turn to reach the road again.
After floundering around in the chemisal
or tar-weed for an hour or more they
reached a road near an apparently de
serted house. Their halloos soon brought
around them as vicious a pack of dogs as
ever haunted the canine-infested streets
of Constantinople. They numbered to
ward fifty and not one of them was dumb.
They dashed at Sam and his companion
with murderous fury, compelling them
both to seek a trembling resting place on
the fence. The howls of the dogs final
ly brought about twenty of their masters
from tlie houses, and these men must
have smiled in the twilight when their
eyes fell upon Clemens and his friend
clinging with heel and hand to the top
rail of the fence, surrounded by the hun
gry, snapping dogs. They proved to be
Italians, who did not understand a word
of English. Then, and not till then, did
Clemens lose his temper. He swore at
himself for getting into the scrape. He
cursed his companion for not knowing
the road, lie anathematized the Italians
for coining to this country before they
had mastered the English language. He
profanely alluded to the gap in his early
education that had not been filled in with
the soft melodious tongue of Italy, wind
ing up his remark with a glance of con
centrated hate at the puck of yelping
dogs beneath him, as he turned to Ids
companion and in that inimitable, lazy
diowl so peculiar to him, said: “Do
you know, Jim, if I might at this moment
ask a favor of Providence, after my fa
miliarity with Ilis name, if it was to be
the last yearning desire of my heart, 1
would ask that I might be converted in
to atou of prime beef, loaded with strych
nine, and dumped among that gang of
curs. I’d die contented after that.”
Grant's Thoroughbreds.
The sale of President Grant’s thorough
breds took place at St. Louis,•'recently,
and the unaccountable low prices which
they realized was the subject of comment
among the three hundred persons who
attended. Asa sample of prices it may
be stated that the Nellie Grant team,
Lady Morgan and Queane, which cost
$l,lOO, brought $112.50; Kate Haynes, a
thoroughbred brood mare, $45 ; Helen,
an elegant sorrel marc, SBO ; Topsey, the
well-known inare presented to the Presi
dent in 1807 by the Russian Ambassador
at Washington, and kept by the Presi
dent ever since as a brood mare, S2O ;
Butcher Maid, a pacing inare, SOO ; the
Vicksburg mare, which was announced
as the animal on which General Grant
rode in the Vicksburg campaign, was
knocked off for $-56 ; and “ Oid Joe,” the
President’s saddle horse before the war,
and now aged and infirm, only brought
$lO. It is considered certain that Presi
dent Grant lias sacrificed a large sum of
money by the peremtory sale of bis
thorough breds.
■— 9
Ax accommodating man—Buggs—
“ Hello, Tripe, moving?” Tripe—“ Yes.”
Buggs—“ What for ?” Tripe—“ Well
times are a little hard, and I am moving
o please my landlady.”
VOL. II—NO. 3.
HUMOR.
Chaugc'l llis niiitl.
A subscriber to the Elizabeth Xnr.i
came m the office a few days ago and or
dered his paper stopped, because he dif
n led with Richard La Rue iu the views
of subsoiling fence-rails. Richard eou
ceued the man’s right to stop the patter,
and remarked, coolly, as he looked over
his list:
Do you know Jim Sowders, down at
Hardscrabble?”
\ ery well, said the man.
, \V ell, he stopped his paper last week
because I thought a farmer was a blamed
tool who did not know that timothy was
a good thing to graft on huckleberry
bushes, and he died iu less than forty
hours.”
“ Lord, is that so?” said tlie astonish
ed granger.
And you know old George Erickson,
down on Eagle creek ?”
“ M 011, I have heard of him?”
M ell, said Richard, gravely, lie stop
ped ins paper because I said lie was the
happ}.father of twins, and congratulated
him on his success so late in life, lie
fell dead within twenty minutes. There
is t lots of similar cases, hut it.don’t,mat-
ter. 1 will just cross your name, though
you don’t look strong and there is a bad
color m your nose.”
Bee here, Mr. La Ilue, said the sub
scriber, looking somewhat alarmed. I
believe 111 just,)keep on another ..year,
because I always did like your paper, and
come to think about it you’re a voting
man, and some allowance ought to be
made;” and he departed, satisfied that
he had made a narrow escape from death.
Autumn IloaKc-ricaniiiK.
She has got on a torn dress, hitched
up at one side sufficiently to reveal an
unbuttoned shoe; there are flake's of
whitewash in her hair and on her chin ;
her dress is wet, her fingers are parboil
ed, and her thumb lias been split with a
.hammer, but her eye is as clear and as
bright as a Major-General on field day.
she picks up a handful of skirts and
skims through the apartment, seeing five
hundred things which should be done at
once, and trying to do them; and even
time she comes within reach of tlie dress
er, she snatches a look into the glass,
and shoves a fresh hair-pin into her di
lapidated coil. And thus planted in the
debi is, 1 1 tee a queen on liter throne she
unblushingly asserts that “It’s anaw
iul job ;” “ Everything is in wretched
shape j” “I 11 be so glad when this is
over; It does seem as if my back
will snap in two ;” “ I’m a good mind to
i- never c^eau bouse again so long
a . , e - And tln-n her mind uncon
sciously soars heavenward, and she won
ders it there will he a liouse-cleanin ,r
season there, and if not, how a heaven
can be made of it. It is this speculation
which gives her that dreamy expression
when she is cutting your bread with u
soap-knife.
A Fair Game, but .Vot Equal.
During the war a Georgian started to
Marietta with some chickens for sale.
He met a squad of soldiers, and they
bought all his chickens hut one rooster,
lie insisted they should take him, hut
they were out of money and couldn’t
buy.
The old man said he hated to go on to
town with only one chicken, and was
greatly puzzled about it.
At last one of the soldiers said :
Old man, 111 play you a game of
seven up for him.”
‘“ Agreed,” says the old man.
1 hey played a long and spirited game.
At last the soldier won. The old man
wrung the rooster’s neck and tossed him
at the soldier s feet, and mounted his
swab-tailed pony and started home. Af
ter going some 200 yards lie suddenly
stopped, turned round and rode back and
said :
“ ou played a far game, and won the
rooster farly, but I’d like to know what
in the h—l you put up agin that ar
rooster ?”
Talking the Kisk.
The other day a colored resident of
Vicksburg found a bottle of whiskey in
the suburbs of the city, and halting a pe
destrian he inquired :
“Hat’s whisky, ain’t it?”
“ Smells like it, aud I guess it is,” was
the reply.
“ And dere ain’t no pizen in it ?”
“ Well, there may be—l can’t tell; I
shouldn’t want to drink it.”
“if dere was pizen I’d be a dead nig
ger, eh ?”
“ You would.”
“ And if derc wasn’t anv pizen I’d he
wasting a pint of good whisky?”
“ Yes.” J
Ihe finder turned the bottle over and
over, smelled of the contents three or
four times, and finally • made ready to
drink, saying:
“Here’s heaps of pizen lying around
loose, but dere’salso heaps oh niggers in
Vicksburg, and I’s gwine to tip up de
bottle an’ run de chances 1”
Pmldy to the Front Again.
An Irishman had sold his farm, and
moved all his personal property to one
adjoining, which he had purchased.
He claimed that stable manure was
personal property, and not real estate,
and commenced moving the same. A
law suit ensued, and the court declared
against him. His final remarks to the
Judge, after the jury had found a verdict
against him, were as follows :
“ Mr. Judge, a horse and cow arc per
sonal property?”
“ 5 es,” answered the Judge.
“Mr. Judge, corn, oats, hay, etc., are
personal property?”
“ Yes,” responded the Judge.
“ Then,” said Bat, “ how in the devil
can personal property eat personal prop
erty and produce real estate?”
Women and Devils.
Old Winston was a negro preacher in
Virginia, and his ideas of theology and
human nature were often very original.
A gentleman thus accosted the old
man on Sunday : “ Winston, I under
stand you believe every woman lias sev
en devils. How can you prove it?”
“ Well, sail, did you nebber read in do
Bible how seven debbles were cast out’er
Mary Magalin ?”
“ Oh, yes ! I’ve read that.”
“ Did you ebber hear oh ’em bein’ cast
out oh any oder woman, sah ?”
“ No, I never did.”
“ Well, den, all the oders got ’em yet.”
A young lady being charged bv a gen
tleman with having trifled with his feel
ing.-., seiaimeti. Weil, I plead jUty.”
THE OGLETHORPE ECHO
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Opposite Deiipree Hall,
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
This popular 1 louse is again open to
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fwh-t-ly Proprietors.
3?ALIi MILLINERY.
\/| RB. T. A. ADAMS, Broad Street, Ath*
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stock ot Ball Millinery Goods, comprising the
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etc., at reasonable prices. orttj-Jin*
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WEVL WALSMAN,
Fashionable Tailor,
Would respectfully inform the public, and
his old friends of Oglethorpe mid Elbert, that
he is now located on Clayton street, Athena,
Ga., and is fully prepared to do work in his
usual satisfactory manner. sepK-tf
T. H. & W. CHILDERS,
Carpanters anil Builders,
ATHENS, - - - - GEORGIA,
Are prepared to do all manner of work in
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HERE TIIE CITIZENS OF OGLETHORPE
will alway find the Cheapest and
Best Stock of
FANCY GOODS, LIQUORS,
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J. M. BAERY. Broad Str M Athens, Ga,
npit-tr
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Don’t forget to slop at the Roan House, on
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Go to Davis’ Gallery,
IN ATHENS,
IF YOU WANT
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With RELIABLE ami Guaranteed work,
At 25 Per Cent. Less
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Having BEST workmen, are prepared to
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TEST- We make a specialty of SILVER and
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terms, to prompt-paying customers, as anv
any one in the State. Orders solicited and
satisfaction guaranteed.
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—ai cUitiiuier, Au.ciu,_oii.