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THE OGLETHORPE ECHO SUBSCRIPTION. ONE YEAR ZZ $2.00 SIX MONTHS 1.00 THREE MONTHS 50 CLUB RATES. FIVE COPIES or less than 10 each... 1.73 TEN COPIES or more, each 1.50 Terms—('ash in advance. No paper sent until money received. AH papers stopped at expiration of time, unless renewed. POPE BARROW, ATTOBHEy AT LAW, CRA WFORD, - - - GEORGIA, Will practice in the counties of Clarke, Oco nee, Oglethorpe, Elbert, Wilkes, Taliafe.o and Hancock. Special attention given to co’- leciions. octlo-ly E. A. WILLIAMSON, ~ PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER And Jeweller, At Dr. King’s Drug Store Athens, Ga. Who said advertising won’t pay? FRANKLIN HOUSE, Opposite Deuprec Hall, ATHENS GEORGIA. This popular House is again open to the public. Hoard, $2 per day. W. A. JESTER & CO., feb4-ly Proprietors. JOHNNIE MINES, Fashionable r Fixiloi*, IIA HIDE TO WN, GA . Will be in Lexington the first TUESDAY in every month, prepared to do all work in his line. Cutting and Making, in the latest style, done nt short notice. Satisfaction in sured, and prices very low. my7-tf T. R. & W. CHILDERS Carpanters and 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 STOReZcORNER HERE THE CITIZENS OF OGLETHORPE will alway find the Cheapest and Rest Stock of FANCY GOODS, LIQUORS, GROCERIES, LAMPS, OIL, Etc. J. M. BARRY. Broad Str., Athens, Ga. aprt-tf ’ ’ ROAN HOUSE, LEXINGTON, GA. rnilE UNDERSIGNED HAS OPENED A A Hotel in 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 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 stop 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 and Guaranteed work, At 25 Per Cent. Less than Foreign Companies. jan29-tf L. Schevenell & Cos. ATHENS, GEORGIA, DEALERS IN Waffles, fpielry, Silver & Plated Ware, Fancy Articles, Etc, Having BEST workmen, are prepared to REPAIR in superior style. TrO' We make a specialty of SILVER and GOLD PLATING watches, forks,spoons, etc. W. A. TALMADGE. F. P. TALMADGE. W. A. TALMADGE & CO., DEALERS IN WATCHES. CLOCKS HID JEWELRY, SILVER AND PLATED WARE, Mnsiral Instruments, Cutlery, CANES, GUNS AND PISTOLS. Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Guns and Pistols REPAIRED in the best manner and warranted. General ENGRAVING done with dispatch. Sole agents for J. MOSES’ ELECTRO GALVANIC SPECTACLES. College Avenue, Opposite Post Office, apr3o-tt‘ ATHENS, GA. 250,000 CIGARS NOW IN STORE, OF TIIE Choicest Brands ! 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. SCHOOL BOOKS. MY STOCK OF SCHOOL BOOKS, STA TIONERY, Slates, Chalk, Crayons, etc., is very full, and I will sell on as good terms, to prompt-paying customers, as any any one in the State. Orders solicited anil satisfaction guaranteed. T. A. BURKE, Bookseller and Stationer, Athens, Ga. WATSON’S SOUTH RIVER MILL I HAVE RECENTLY OVERHAULED and thoroughly repaired my FLOUR and' CORN MILLS, and can now grind 100 bush els per dav. The Flour from my mills is of the best "brand that can be made from the wheat sent, and the yield guaranteed to be as good as from anv Mill in the county. Perso nal attention given to all grinding by myself and son, who will see that full justice is done customers, both in “ turn-out” and quality of Flour. My Corn Meal is pronounced the best. aug27-tf G. WATSON. vTl)c #gkf!)®tjjc Cell®, BY T. L. GANTT. BRIEFLETS. The World in a Nat Shell-Latest News. —China has a paper 1,000 years old. —Milburn, the t blind preacher, will lecture the coming season. —A San Francisco Baptist chnrch has been sold for a Chinese brothel. —Baden, Penn., boasts of a lady whose hair is six feet ten inches in length. —A woman has been sent to jail at Montreal for whipping her husband. —A house-fly has been known to carry the measels from one house to another. —Madame Nilsson recently sold a number of hairs from her head at $lO each. —A Norristown girl, fourteen years old, is hut two feet high and weighs only eight pounds. —A Michigan man recently sold his wife, cow and household furniture for fifty dollars. —Of the 1898 who escaped out of the “noble six hundred” who charged at Balaklava, only 80 now survive. —A London exhibition contains a wax image of Theodore Tilton. One week it is labeled Tilton, and the next Beecher. —The\skeleton of a mastodon has just been unearthed in Broome county, N. Y., the tusks of which are ten feet in length. —An Illinois editor, who received a horse-whipping, at once published an extra of his paper, giving a full account of the affair. —ln a nest of robins found in Massa chusetts are three white birds and one cream colored. The old birds are of the common hue. —Call these hard times, do you ? Why, here are SSO subscriptions pouring in from all sides for the monument to the dead mare, American Girl. —A dense column of house-flies, which took twenty minutes to pass a given spot, passed through a New York town, recently, southward bound. —A Portland man and his wife have separated because they could not agree about who should pay the funeral expen ses of a recently buried child. —lt is predicted that by the Ist day of January next, the Mississippi will have cut anew channel near Vicksburg, leaving that place two miles inland. —A New York father recently discov ered his long lost daughter in the “Wild Woman,” who lias lor years been inhab iting a cave in the mountains of that State. She was entirely naked. —A druggist in Bethel, Me., after clo sing his store the other night, was atten ded home by a large wild bear, which made no threatening demonstrations, but only left when he got inside the house. —A Nebraska professor, through a telescope, found that a flight of ’hoppers were one mile thick, and by the telegraph ascertained that they were four hundred miles wide, and have been flying for five days at the rate of one hundred mile3 per day. —A scientist says the sun is constantly increasing in size, and therefore increas ing his attractive power, so that in time he may have sufficient power to draw our world and all other worlds of our family into himself, and we may be mel ted down to become a part of the sun. —lt has been proposed to establish a pigeon post between Europe and the United States, and an ocean homing bird of great docility has been discovered in Iceland, which is said to be admirably calculated for the purpose, being able to fly at the marvelous rate of 150 miles an hour. —ln July, a diver in submarine armor, working at a wreck on the coast of Nor mandy, was seized by a devil-fish, which held fast to a neighboring rock. His comrade came to his assistance and was seized also. It was only with great dif ficulty that they could give the signal that they needed help. Cutlasses were brought, and the monster’s arms were hewed off. —A candidate for a vacant vicarage in England announces an invention of his own which may prove to be useful. It is a peculiar arrangement of the pulpit, with a clock to give warning. When at the end of a half hour the clock sounds an alarm, if the preacher does not con clude in three minutes, down comes the pulpit, with the parson and the rest of the appendages. —The Davenport (la.) Gazette of recent date says that two women have been traveling through that State selling cor sets at unusually low prices. “ Indeed,” adds that journal, “ their anxiety to give ladies a perfect fit and the insignificant reward they asked for their services exci ted suspicion, Now not a lady in lowa will admit that she has bought corsets in six months, while the two peddlers have resumed male attire and occupy dismal cells in jail.” —John Barney Wright, of Williams town, who has been quite out of health during the past summer, was relieved of the cause of his illness by a powful emetic administered by Dr. W. P. Niles, of Pownal, which brought forth a lively snake eleven inches in length. Wright had probably taken the reptile while slaking his thirst at some forest spring during one of his numerous bear hunt ing excursions. John says he would rather meet a bear any tims than a snake, and could swallow one with better relish. CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 29, 1875. DEVILTRIES. The Raciest, Latest and Best Witlcisms. —“ How sweet, but how bald for one so young I” is what a nice young lady re marked about an infant. —“ I say, Bill, what’s the difference between your watch and a hi l l-poster ?” “ I give it up Juliat.” “ Well, one is a Bill’s ticker and the other is a bill-stick er.” —The old ladies of Massachusetts are petitioning Gov. Gaston not to hang Jesse Pomeroy for the reason that in the pres ent delicate state of his health it would be impossible for him to survive the opera tion. —“ I’m two years older than you,” said a little eight-vear-old girl to a New Bed ford boy the other day. “ Well, I don’t care,” was the reply; “ I’m going to wear trousers soon, and that you'll never do.” —A negro suddenly finding himself uuder fire during a skirmish in the late waf, prayed. This is what he prayed : “ Oh, Lord! if you’re eber gwine lo do anything for dis old nigger, now's the time.” —A reporter being called to account for a statement that a certain meeting “ was a large and respectable one,” when only one other person besides himself was present, insisted that his report was liter ally true ; for, said he, “ I was large, and the other man was respectable.” —An Irishman, on arriving in this country, took a fancy to a Yankee girl, and wrote to his wife : “ Dear Norah, these melancholly lines are to inform you that I died yerterday, and hope you are enjoying the same blessing. I rec commend you to marry Jeisie O’Rourke, and take care of the ehilde \ From your affectionate husband til death.” —Snifkins staked his all on the result of a game of euchre the other night and lost. Throwing down the cards peevish ly he broke forth in the following pathet ic strain : “ Twas ever thus from child hood’s hour, I’ve seen my fondest hopes take flight, and every time I played the left bower, someone took it with the right.” —“ Remember, madam,” said the geni al hook agent, “ this work is a combina tion of all the most theoretical and real istic idioms evolved by a concatenation of sophistical reasoninig from the brainial developments of the most profound psy chologists of the nineteenth centry ” At this point the poor woman fainted, and her son ran around to the back of the house to unchain the hull-dog. —Ton\Raikes was a dandy, but he had had the small-pox, and the disease had ravaged liis nose fearfu’ly. He sent a scurrilous note to Count D’Orsay, sealed with a wafer by the aid of a thim ble. D’Orsay knew the writer, and the next t:me he met Raikes in a crowd, sug gested to him in a loud voice, that the next time lie sent an annoyance note he “he should not seal it with the end of his nose.” —A Danbury woman who has been troubled with an aching tooth, which she feared to have pul led because of the pain, had it suddenly jumped out of her mouth while she was eating her supper, the oth er evening. There was asliarpexpksive sound, and the wretched tooth flew clear across the table. A number of medical men have been to see her, but they could not explain the phenomenon, and after charging her five dollars each they went away completely dumfounded. —Daring the time when Clayton was ruler of Arkansas, all Justices of the to be appointed by his Excel lency. One old neg"o, who thought he knew enough to discharge the duties of the office, called on the Governor to be examined and receive his appointment. Several questions were given him, all of which he managed very well. But when he was asked, “ what would you do in case where a man had committed sui cide ?” y He replied: “What would I do sar? well, I’d make ’im s’eprt de child.” He was appointed. —“ Uncle Pete” was asked to subscribe fifty cents to his parson’s salary yester day. “ Can’t do it, I tell ye. Kase dere’s mighty hard times’ proachin’ on hyar!” “ Oh, no Pete, de craps is good, and we hah plenty money dis winter !” “ You’se a fool! How kin datbe when I heer Mr. Jeemes up dar at de bank say dat de Calorafornv Bank done busted, jis like dat Freedman bank did? Can’t scribe nuthin’, honey, but I’ll lend de preacher my wood saw and buck, ef he wants to yearn somfin.” This proposition was not accepted. —Brandon was a Western practitioner of uncertain age, and whose steps, it often occurred, were ditto. He was not hand some, but on the contraryr his visage was pock-marked, and he had a pug nose that was a real curiosity. He could move it to and fro with all the ease and dexterity imaginable that it required in waving his official hand over his law documents. It was extreamely useful during fly-time. On examining a lady witness not long since, he asked her how old she was ? “Sir, I am an unmarried woman, and I don’t think it right to answer your ques tion.” “ Oh, yes, inform the gentleman how old you are,” said the Judge. “I am fifty.” “ Are you no more ?” “ Well, I am sixty.” “ Have you still a desire for getting married?” queried Brandon. “ Not if you are the only man left,” was the reply. A MISER'S DEN. A Horrible Scene of Loathsomeness and Misery—A Chinaman Worth 40,000 Rotting' in a Sub-Cellar. [From the San Francisco Ledger.] Now and then one picks up some old book and reads about some noted miser, whose excess of meanness has made him historical. San Francisco can boast of a miser beside whom all others are insig nificant. Last night a Ledger reporter went with a special officer to see the most horrible specimen of a man who lives on the globe to-day. “ You must be startled at what you see,” sa'd the officer, as they turned up Jackson street. The two wended their way through the Chinamen, and soon turned into an alley near Dupont street. “ This is the most horrible hole that ever existed in God’s creation,” remarked the officer again, and they turned into another alley run ning up from the first. The place tvas very narrow, and the buildings leaned over at the top for a better acquaintance —it seemed a sort of architectural socia bility. The place was lined with broth els and opium dens. The lowest class of Chinese prostitutes inhab.ted the rookeries, and their fat faces peered from the windows, while they showered a torrent of vile obscenity upon the officer and his companion. The stench of opium came up from their dens, and the air of the miserable lair of vice and filthiness was thick with a thou sand disgusting odors. The alley nar rowed at the end, while the fumes of smoke grew thicker and the women viler. Lamps made of wicks floating in a bowl of grease, threw a straggling, hazy light over the scene of absolute wretchedness. Now and then a poor, emaciated Chi naman glided like a ghost from one of the dens and slid off in a haze. Men and women staggered from one entrance to another, and through the chinks of the sidewalk and gratings, half closed with rubbish, could be seen half-naked wretches lying about low tables, stupe fied with drugs, their bodies collecting the poisonous vapors of the cellars, and their minds floating away in paradise. “ This way,” said the officer, and he stepped down into a black hole which looked like a place to throw refuse. The reporter followed him down the stairs, and then the officer lit a candle-end. The place was a dirty cellar, about ten feet square, and innumerable rats were dart ing over the floor, which appeared to be groud and old boards. The walls drip ped with moisture, and the damp vapors were very nearly stiffling. “ Is this the place?” “ No.” “ Where, then ?” “ In the next cellar below.” The officer lifted up some boards in a corner, and a rush of still fouler air came up like the exhalation of a dissecting sink. “ Come on.” The officer began to go down the ladder, and asked the reporter to follow. It seemed like going down into a grave infected with death. It was not the proper thing for the reporter to hesitate, however much he wished to, and so he followed the officer down into the hole. Here the candle barely burn ed, and the officer lighting another han ded it to his companion. The upper cellar seemed like a front parlor com pared to this. A sickening stench, more fetid than the opium dens, and more loathsome than the brothels, pervaded the place like a misty substance. The reporter placed a handkerchief to his mouth and breathed through it. The walls were trickling with moisture, and the floor was slippery with slime. In a corner was the object of the officer’s visit. “ What do ye think of that ?” The officer put his candle down to ward the spot, and its rays fell upon the face of the old man—so old that there was no means of telling how long he must have been born. He lay upon some loose boards, with a piece of dirty blanket thrown over him. The skin of his face was drawn tight to his skull, and a few straggling white hairs fell back from his scalp. His body, wherever seen from under the blanket, was covered with loathsome sores, at which the rats nibbled as they scrambled over him. Now and then he moved his limbs, and the horrible feasters fell off for a mo ment and returned immediately. When the light fell upon his face he opened his eyes for an instant and closed them again. His hands were those of a skele ton, and the rats were gnawing at his fingers, yet he seemed not to notice it. The time seemed to have passed for him to feel pain. His teeth were all gone, and his cheeks almost met in his mouth. A bowl of foul water was near his head, which he had been using to quench his thirst. “ What does he eat?” “ Rats,” said the officer, and poking the debris with a stick, he showed the reporter the bones which he had picked clean and thrown aside. “ said he was a miser, I believe ?” “ he has $40,000 in the bank. Let’s go.” When the alley above ground was reached, the air, which half an hour be fore was so horrible to breathe, now seemed delicious in its freshness.” Warren Hasting’s elephant, which is a hundred years old, is being fed up to be ridden by the Prince of Wales when he visits Lucknow, AMONG THE INDIANS. Brutal Performances at the Red Cloud Council— Some of Sir. Lo*s Refined Amusements. The most brutal sight one can witness in the Indian country is only afforded when the “ Sun Dance” occurs, and its brutality is sueli that one only cares to see it once, and would then gladly forget its hellish orgies. For several days the Sioux, Cheyennes and Arapahoes have been making grand arrangements for this dance, and yesterday came the finale. For twenty-four hours previous a general dance and singing had been going on at the camp, five miles above here; at times as many as two hundred warriors were in the happy circle, while three big drums gave out noise enough to start three or four pandemoniums, with the not very musical voices of a large number of squaws thrown in to add an additional feature of the horrible. The object of the “ Sun Dance” is to test the courage of the young warriors to endure physical pain, under the most trying cir cumstances, the one enduring most com ing out with the barbaric honors. At ten o’clock, seventeen young warriors, strip ped entirely naked, save a limited breec.h clo'it, came into the circle and were ope rated upon. This operation was perform ed by a Medicine Man, horribly rigged out. The first one to come up was a mag nificent looking fellow from the Chey ennes, all hone and muscle, and in glori ous health. The Medicine Man first cut four gashes about three inches long on the shoulders, near the point. With a smooth stick of hard wood he made a hole underneath the slits he had cut, each ta king in an inch or more in width, and through which hole he passed a buffalo thong and tied it tightly. Then the breast was served the same manner, after which one thong was fastened to a four teen-foot pgle. To the other thong was tied a large beef head—a long-horned Texan, with about ten foot of thong be tween the back and the bead. The young warrior then jumped into a lively dance, getting a song of some sort in keeping with the performance, jerking that bull head around so fast that at times it was four or five feet above the ground—all the time pulling as best he could at the thong fastened to the pole by jumping back and swinging upon it. At times the flesh on back and breast seemed to stretch out about eight or ten inches, and when let up would close down with a pop. The ropes in the breast fastenings were the first to break, one breaking at the top of the cut, the other at the lower end. The top one hung down full four inches, and this the Medicine Man cut off dexterously. It was put through an incantation, when the bloody, sweaty warrior was put through a race of about forty yards with that bull-head hanging to his back. At one bound the horns stuck well in the ground, and with a vigorous pull the thongs broke, and a warrior was made. He was a terrible looking object, and so nearly exhausted that he had to he help ed away. During the last half of his torture he uttered not a word, nor did he open his mouth, nor even wince. His wounds were washed and bound up, pres ents made to him of horses and robes, and he recognized as a brave man. There were sixteen more performances of like nature, save that no other ones took the double ties on back and breast. Thrteen were tied by the back, the others by the breast. The fat fellows got away with business very quickly, but the lean, lank and more muscular fellow had long and tough jobs with it. One fellow, break ing in a frantic effort, and falling under the heels of my horse, resulted in a peeled head for the Indian, as well as a sore back. I confess that I only remained to see two of the victims go through the ordeal, gaining from my companion, a half-breed interpreter, the statistics con cerning the fat and lean fellows who had enough Indian in them to stomach the whole of the bloody brutality. The warriors who went through the ordeal were all from the North—those who have but little to do with the whites, and that little mostly in the way of scalps and horse-stealing. The more civilized fel lows have learned better than to make such confounded fools of themselves. Escape of a Female Monster. On Thursday night Mme. Fortmeyer, sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment, made her escape from prison in Jefferson City, Mo., by forcing her body through over the transom of her cell. Mme. Fortmeyer was convicted at the April term of the St. Louis Criminal Court of the murder of a young girl named Lena Miller and her infant child by malprac tice. After her arrest a search was made of her house, and the charred bones of two infauts were found in a stove in her bed-room. She confessed to a detective that one of the infants was that of Lena Miller, which she had burned alive. A number of horrible developments follow ed, showing the accused to be a monster, it being a practice of hers to burn every child delivered by her, whether dead or alive. There is reason to believe that she murdered and burned fifty infants during the prosecution of her inhuman business in St. Louis. Great snakes! Down in Arkansas they recently killed a rattlesnake twenty feet long,twenty-four inches around the girth, three or four inches between the eyes, and which made a track of eight and three-fourth inches. VOL. II—NO. 4. HUMOR. George 'Washington Xo. 2. The passenger, who was going down the big river for the first time in his life, secured permission to climb up beside the pilot, a grim old grayback who never told a lie in his life. “ Many alligators in the river?” inquir ed the stranger, after a look around. “ Not so many now, since they got to shootin’ ’em for their hides and taller,” was the reply. “ Used to be lots, eh ?” “ I don’t want to tell you about ’em, stranger,” replied the pilot, sighing heav ly- “ Why ?” “ Cause you’d think I was a-lyin’ to you, and that’s sumthiu’ I never do. I kin cheat at kcerds, drink whisky or chaw poor terbacker, but I can’t lie.” “ Then there used to be lots of ’em ?” inquired the passenger. “ I’m mosf*afraid to tell ye, Mister, but I’ve counted ’leven hundred altygatersto the mile from Vicksburg cl’ar down to Orleans ! That was years ago, afore a shot was ever fired at ’em.” “Well, I don’t doubt it,” replied the stranger. “ And I’ve counted 3,459 of ’em on one sand bar 1” continued the pilot. “It looks big to tell, but a Government sur sui veyor was aboard,and he checked ’em off, as I called out.” “ I haven’t the least doubt of it,” said the passenger as he heaved a sigh. 1 “ I’m glad o’ that, stranger. Some fellers would think I was a liar when I’m telling the solemn truth. This used to be a paradise for alligators, and they were so thick that the wheels of the boat killed on an average of forty-nine to the mile.” “ Is that so ?” “ True as Gospel, mister I I used to almost feel sorry for the cussed brutes, cause they’d cry out e’en most like a hu man being. We killed lots of ’em, as I said, and we hurt a pile more. I sailed with one captain who alius carried a thousand bottles of liniment to throw over the wounded ones !” “ He did?” “ True as you live, he did. I don’t ’spect I’ll eyer see another such a kind, Christian man. And the alligators got to know the Nancy Jane, and to know Capt. Tom, and they’d swim out and rub their tails against the boat an’ purr like cats an’ look up and try try to smile!” “ They would ?” “ Solemn truth,” stranger. “ And once when we ground on a bar, with an opposition boat right behind, the alliga tors gathered around, got under her stern, and humped her clean over the bar by a grand push !” It looks like a big story, but I never told a lie yet, and I never shall. I wouldn’t lie for all the mon ey you could put aboard this boat.” There was a paini'ul pause, and after awhile the pilot continued : “ Our injines gin outonce, and a crowd of aligalors took a towline and hauled us forty-five miles up stream to Vicks burg !” “ They did ?” “ And when the news got along the river that Capt. Tom was dead, every al ligator in the river daubed his left ear with mud as a badge of mournin’, and lots of ’em pined away and d-ed !” The passenger left the pilot house with the remark that he didn’tdoubtthestate- ment, and the old man gave the wheel a turn and replied : “ Thar’s one thing I won’t do for love nor money, and that’s make a liar of my self. I was brung up by a good mother, and I’m going to stick to the trnth if this boat doesn’t make a cent.” More George Washingtons. A few days since I stepped into the village blacksmith shop at a time when the conversation of the loungers was run ning on the subject of big trees. I took a seat on an elnpty nail keg, at the same time remarking that, as far I was concern ed, I had never beheld any giant of the forest of so stupendous proportions, but that I had seen it stated in the papers that in California the trees were so tall that it required two men and a small boy to see to the top of them, one looking as long as he could and the next com mencing where he left off, and so on until the top was reached. “ That’s noth ing,” said Joe Ponnybecker; “ when I was down in Montgomery county I saw a tree which had a circumference so large that it took a very fast walker fifteen hours to make the circuit.” “ Gentlemen,” interrupted Jesse Lin gore, the blacksmith, dropping his ham mer and tongs and resting one foot upon the anvil, “ all I have to say is that Mr. Calkerpit and Mr. Ponnybecker might both just as well hang up their fiddles, because I saw a tree out in the western country which, after it was cut off the stump, was six weeks in falling to the ground.” A Lewiston (Me.) man boasts that he traded horses nine times in one day, and at night he had the same horse he star ted with in the morning, $45 in money, a watch worth S2O, a double-barrelled shot gun and four bushels of potatoes. When William Flemming, a Monroe (Conn.) Enoch Arden, reached home the other day after a four years’ unexplained absence, instead of dissolving in tears, he swore like a pirate because his wife had not married again, THE OGLETHORPE ECHO ADVERTISEMENTS. First insertion (per inch space) $1 00 Each subsequent insertion 73 A liberal discount allowed those advertising for a longer |>eriod than three months. Card of lowest contract rates can be had on appli cation to the Proprietor. Local Notices 15c. per line first and 10c. j>er line thereafter. Tributes of Respect, Obituaries, etc., 50e. ner inch. Announcements, $5 in advance. TAX NOTICE. T WILL COLLECT TAXES AT THE 1 times and places following: Sandy Cross (morning), J.J. Green’s (even ing)—Oet. 25th Nov. 22d. Maxey’s—Oct. 27 anq N\f 10. Bairdstown—Octobe*-og ’ November 11. Woodstock—Oetoiler Jo November 12. Amis’ Mill—October J 6 and November 13. Goose Pond—November 1 and 15. Antioch—November 3 and 17. Harrow’s Mill—November 4 and 18. \\ interville (inoruim:', Bcaverdara (evening). —November 5 and 19. Pleasant Ilill—November 6 and 20. Glade—November 8 and 24. Lexington— Every Tuesday. tnov24 J. G. IIARTSFIELD, T. C. O. C. : Administrator’s Sale. /A EORGIA, OGLETHORPE COUNTY.— Hv virtue of an order of the Court of Or dinary of said county, will be sold Indore the Court House door, in the town of Lexington, Oglethorpe county, on the FIRST TUESDAY IN NO\ EMBER, 1875, In*tween the legal hours of sale, the following projiertv, belong ing to the estate of It. R. Mitchell, late of said county, deceased, to-wit: All rimt'tract or parcel of LAND, contain ing Fifty-three and Two-thirds acres, more or less, situated, lying ami being in the conntv ot Madison, in said .State, adjoining Mrs. Lar kin Hardman, Newton White and William Chandler. —AT.so— f The following Lots of Wild Lands: One Lot of Land, containing Forty Acres, No. 347, 15th District, 2nd Section, of Cherokee county ; one Lot in the county of Fannin, containing One Hundred ami Sixty Acres, No. 273, 6th District, Ist section; one Lot containing One hundred and Sixty Acres, in the county of Gilmer, No. 118, 26th District, 2d section; One Lot in the county of Murray, containing IGO Acres, No. 102, 26th District, 2nd Section. —ALSO— One other Lot in the county of Murrav, con taining 160 Acres, No. 10, 26th Dist., 2if Sect.; one other lot in said county of Murray, con taining 160 Acres, No. 150, in the 29th Dis trict and 2d Sect.; one Lot in Union county, containing 160 Acres, No. 162, 10th Dist., Ist Sect.; also, one other Lot in Union countv, containing 16(1 Acres, No. 177, in the ISth District, 2d section ; and one Lot Forty Acres, in the county of Polk, No. 1186, in the 21st District and 3d’ Section. All of the above Lands sold for the benefit of the creditors of said cCate. Terms cash. This 29th September, 1875. GEO. H. LESTER, Administrator of R. R. Mitchell, deceased. Administrator’s Sale. BY VIRTUE OF AN ORDER FROM THE Court of Ordinary of Oglethorpe county, Georgia, there will be sold before the Court House door, in the town of Lexington, in sais county, within the usual hoars of sale, on the First. Tuesday in November, 1875, the follow ing lands, belonging to the estate of Richard Dillard, late of said county, deceased, to wit: No. 1 being a tract containing 2101'ftcres more or less, and known as the Home Place, with improvements thereon, and adjoining lands of A. C. Daniel and W. Gauldiiig. No. 2Jbe ing a tract containing 209-i acres,more or les- , and known as the place whereon Isaac R. Hall,’ Jr., now lives, and adjoining lands of the Georgia railroad and W. P. X* irtin. No 3 be ing a tract containing 1101 acres, more or less; and adjoining Nos. 1 and 2 and lands of J. W. McCall a. No. 4 being a tract containing 139 acres, more or less, adjoining Nos. 2 ana 3, and lands of the Georgia Railroad, of A. F/ Pope and W. Gauldiiig, All of said lots laid off by recent stfrvey of said lands, and the plats of the same can be seen on application to the undersigned. All of said lands sold for the benefit of the heirs and creditors of Richard Dillard, de ceased. Terms cash. This September 28th, 1875. ISAAC R. HALL, Jr., ■ RICHARD F. DILLARD, - Administrators of Richard Dillard, deceased/ octl-td Administrator’s Sale of Land. By virtue of an order from the Court of Ordinary of Oglethoq** county, Georgia, there will he" sold before the Court House door, in the town of Lexington, in said countv, between the legal hours of sale, on the FIRST TUESDAY IN NOVEMBER, 1875, the following tract of LAND, to-wit:! The place O. Fleeman, late, of said county, deceased, resided at the time of her death, and known as her dower. Said land lying in said county, and containing Three Hundred and Eighty-three and One-, third (383 J) Acres, more or less, and adjoin ing lands of E. B, Carter, Janies M. Busbin, and others. Sold as the lands belonging to the estate of John S. Fleeman, late of said county, de ceased. Sold for the benefit of the heirs and creditors of said estate. Terms made known on the dav of sale. WILLIAM J. FLEEMAN, Administrator, De bonis non, of John S. Fleeman.’ QTATE OF GEORGIA, OGLETHORPE O COUNTY. —Petition for Letters of Guardianship. Whereas, Sarah Tuek ap plies to me for Letters of Guardianship on the person and property of Rob’t J,Tuck, minor : These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular, kindred and friends of said minor, to be and appear at my office, on or before the first Monday in November, 1875 J to show cause, if any they have, why said Letters should not he granted. Given under my hand and official signature,’ at office in Lexington, this stli dav of October ’ 1875. THOMAS D. GILHAM, Ordinary. Notice in Bankruptcy. District court of the united/ STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DIS TRICT OF GEORGIA. —In the matter of John W. Gunter. Bankrupt—No 934. All persons interested are notified to show, cause, if any they have, before Register Albert G. Foster, at his office in Madison, Ga., on the sth day of November, 1875, at 12 o’clock m.,’ why said bankrupt should not be discharged from all his debts. The second and third meeting of creditor* will be held at the same time and place. It. A. E. BUCK, Clerk. FOR SALE! IOOK OUT, OR YOU WILL LOBE A J great bargain, as I now offer for sale the BEST BUSINESS STAND in the country,’ on the Clarksville road, 9 miles from Athens,' on the Northeastern Railroad—a splendid Country Store-house! a good Dwelling-house, with seven rooms and four fire-places; a good Well of water and good Garden, all in good order; a splendid Barn, with 10 horse-stalls ; Blacksmith and Wood Shops; a splendid Gin-house, with \ rooms and new press; 22J Acres Land —10 acres in good state of cultivation—balance in woods; good neighborhood ; 2 Churches in It miles, good School convenient and a Post Of fice at the place. . , Any person wanting a country stand for selling goods and running public shops and. gin, should call and see me before buying elsewhere. I will also sell stock and fixtures on hand below cost. For further particulars call and see me at my store, Coop*y- P. 0.,’ Jackson county, Ga. ' C. H. SXftfTII. All persons indebted to me will pleas come forward and settle, by or before Ist of November, as mv books will be closed on that day. * C. H. SMITH, sep24-lm Cooper P. 0., Ga.’ milE BEST AND SAFEST INVESTMETIt Jl. is year’s a subscription to the Eofl6,’