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THE OGLETHORPE ECHO subscription] - ONE YEA 11 H 2 00 SIX MONTHS Zoo THREE MONTHS ‘SO CLUB KATES. FIVE COPIES or less than 10, cadi... 1.75 TEN COPIES or more, each 1.50 Thumb—<'ah in advance. No paper sent until money received. All papers ttopjnd at expiration of time, unless renewed. 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 ADVERTISEMENTS. First insertion (per iir-h space) >i *lO Each subsequent insertion ,5 A liberal discount allowed those advertising for H longer period than thnw moitth*. Card of lowest contract rates can'be had oil appli cation to the Proprietor. , laical Notices TV. j>er line fint iusertiuo, and i(k\ per iiue thereafter. _ •Tributes of Respect, Obitcuries, etc., 500. oor inch. Announcements, s!>, Tu advanee. BUSINESS CARDS. pope barrow; ftTTORNEY W LAW, CRA WI'GRD, - - - GI\OJ!GIA, . Will practice in the counties of Clarke, Oco nee. Oglethorjie, Kfl>, rt. Wilkes, Talintern and Hancock. Special attention given to col lections. oetlo-ly E. A. WILLIAMSON, PRACTICAL WATC f I M .V KE It And Jeweller, At I>r. King’s Drugstore \therm, (iu. Why said advertising won’t pay? FRANKLIN HOUSE^ Opposite Deiipree Hall, ATHENS, GEORGIA. This popular 1 louse is again open to the public. Board, 82 per day. W. A. JESTER A CO., fwh-t-ly Proprietors. 3?ALIi MILLINERY. \/| RB. T. A. ADAMS, Broad Street, Ath* ifi ens, Ga., announces to the ladies of Oglethorpe that she has just received a superb stock ot Ball Millinery Goods, comprising the latest styles ill Bonnets, Hats, Ribbons, Laces, etc., at reasonable prices. orttj-Jin* JOHNNIE MINUS, Fatshionable r Ftiiloi% BAIRJKSTO HA*, GA. Will be in Lexington Hie first TUESDAY ill every mouth, prepared to do all work in his line. Cutting and Making, in the latest style, done at short notice. Satisfaction in sured, and prices very low. niv7-tf 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 their line in the best manner. Parties in Oglethorpe wishing building done will save money by addressing them. nov27-ly LITTLE STGRE^CORNER HERE TIIE CITIZENS OF OGLETHORPE will alway find the Cheapest and Best Stock of FANCY GOODS, LIQUORS, GROCERIES, LAMPS, OIL, Etc. J. M. BAERY. Broad Str M Athens, Ga, npit-tr ROAN HOUSE, LEXINGTON, GA. rpilE UNDERSIGNED HAS OPENED A X Hotel in Lexington, Ga., and is now pre pared to entertain tlie traveling public in a hospitable manner. The beds are comforta ble, and the table furnished with the best the market affords. A No. 1 STABLE in connection with the Hotel, where stock will receive good attention. Don’t forget to slop at the Roan House, on the Public Square. E. D. ROAN, Prop’r. Go to Davis’ Gallery, IN ATHENS, IF YOU WANT OLD PICTURES COPIED and ENLARGED With RELIABLE ami Guaranteed work, At 25 Per Cent. Less than Foreign Companies. jan2ft-tf L Schevenell & Cos. ATHENS, GEORGIA, DEALERS IV Wife, ll Jewelry, Silver & Plated Ware, Fancy Articles, Etc, Having BEST workmen, are prepared to REPAIR in sujierior style. TEST- We make a specialty of SILVER and GOLD PLATING watches, forks,spoons, etc.- W. A. TALMA DOE. F. I\ TAI. IIA DOR. W. A. TALMADSE & CO., WATCHES, CußTfifl JEWELRY, SILVER AND PLATE!) WARE, .lluttleal Instrument*!, Cutlery, CANES, CUNS AND PISTOLS. Jr?*. W:ftchc, I'locks, Jewelry, Guns ami Pistols REPAIRED La I lie ligst manner and warranted. General ENGRAVING done with distlatch. Sole ascents for J. MUSES’ ELECTRO GALVANIC K PE CTAC LEN. < “allege Avenue, Opposite Post Office, aprciu-tf ATHENS, OA. 250,000 CIGARS NOW IN STORE, OF THE Choicest lirantls Z which we offer at GREATLY REDUCED' PRICES. Also, a large stock of SMOKING AND CHEWING TOBACCO, SNUFF, GENUINE MEEILCIIAUM PIPES AND ALL SMOKERS’ ARTICLES. A liberal discount allowed to Jobbers uliv ing largely. Conic one! Come all J! KA LVARINsKV & LIEBLER, Under Newton House, Athens, Ga. SCHOOL BOOKS. MY STOCK OF SCHOOL BOOKS, STA TIONERY, Slates, Chalk, Crayons, etc., is very full, and I will sell on us'gontL terms, to prompt-paying customers, as anv any one in the State. Orders solicited and satisfaction guaranteed. T. A. BURKE, —ai cUitiiuier, Au.ciu,_oii.