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A LOVED ONE HOWE.
A light is from the household gone,
A voice we loved is stilled,
A place is vacant on our hearth
Which never can be filled ;
A gentle heart that throbbed but now
With tenderness and love,
Has hushed itsyearv throbbing here,
To throb in bliss above.
Ye*, to the home where angels are,
Her trusting soul has fled,
And yet we bend above her tomb
With tears, and call her dead ;
Me call her dead ; but ah I we know
She dwells where living water* flow.
We miss thee from our home, dear one,
We miss time from thy place—
Oh ! life will be so dark without
The sunshine of thy face *
W e wait for thee at eve’s sweet hour,
When stars begin to burn,
W e linger in our cottage porch
To look for thy return ;
But va nly for thy coming step
We list through all the hours—
W e only heat the wind’s low voice
That murmurs through the flowers,
And the dark river’s solemn livmn
Sweeping among the Woodlands din.
The bird we loved is singing yet
Above our cottage door,
We sigh to hear it singing now,
Since heard by thee no more ;
The sunshine and the trembling leaves,
The blue, o’er arching shy,
The music of the wondering winds
That float in whispers by*—
All speaking in tender tones to me,
Of all life’s parted hours and thee.
I do not see thee now, dear one,
I do not see thee now,
But even when the twilight breeze
Steals o’er my lifted brow,
I hear thy voice upon my ear
In murmurs low and soft,
I hear the words of tenderness
That I have heard so oft;
And on my wounded spirit falls
A blessing from above,
That whispers—though thy life is o’er,
We have not lost thy love.
AIT me ! thy heart in death grown cold,
Still loves us with a love untold.
No need of Fame’s proud voice for thee,
Nor need for earthly fame,
Thou art enshrined in our fond hearts,
And that is all the same;
Ay. full of faith, and trust, and hope,
We tread life’s troubled sea,
Till the last throbbing wave of time
Shall bear our souls to thee—
To thee, oh! it will be so sweet
With all our sins forgiven,
To mingle with our loved and lost,
In our sweet home in heaven ;
To spend with all the blest above
An endless life of perfect love !
THERE IS NO UNBELIEF.
There is no unbelief.
W r hoever plants a seed beneath the sod
And waits to see it push away the clod,
Trusts in God.
There is no unbelief.
Wdioever says, when clouds are in the sky,
* l Be patient, heart! Light breaketh by and
by,”
Trusts the Most High.
There is no unbelief.
Whoever sees ’neath winter’s field of snow
The silent harvest of the future grow,
God’s power must know.
There is no unbelief.
Whoever lies down on his couch to sleep, ,
Consents to lock each sense in slumber deep,
Knows God will keep.
There is no unbelief.
Whoever says, “ to-morrow,” the unknown,
The future, trusts that power alone
He dares not to disown.
St A V AND WIFE.
’Twas morning of election day,
He came down feeling fresh and cherry,
And, bending o’er her chair, remarked,
“ Who are your candidates, my deary ?”
She humped her pull-back just enough
To make her favorite paper rustle, —
“ Their names 1 don’t remember, but
You’ll find them somewhere in my bustle.”
ODE TO OBTI'M.
I would not die in Ortum,
W r ith peaches fit for eat in’,
When the wavy corn is gittin wripe,
< & candidates is treatin’;
When sausage meat is phryin,
And hickory nuts is thick,
O, who would think of dyin’,
Or even gittin sick !
A Horrible Story.
We have heard of a very distressing
accident occurring in Jackson county,
West Virginia. It was a “ house raising.”
As is customary on such occasions, chick
ens had been killed by chopping off their
heads. Two little sons of the owner of
the house to be raised saw the chickens
thus guillotined, and during the day con
eluded to repeat the operation. It was
just at a time when the men were lifting
a heavy log into its place. The father,
who was holding one end of the log, cast
ing his eyes toward the little fellows, one
of whom had the axe raised to sever the
neck of his brother, let go of the log to
nave the boy, and it fell, killing six men,
two instantly, the others living only a
few hours. The axe fell before the father
could reach the scene, severing the neck
of his son. Thus were seven persons
hurled into eternity in a twinkling.—
Middleport (0.) News.
—Max Adeler denies the story about
his marrying a corputent heiress. He
says she is a little bit of a woman with a
bump ou her nose, and wasn’t worth but
eighteen oeuts.
@l]c #§tetlljotfie <£d)o.
BY T. L. GANTT.
BR.IEFX.ETS.
The World in a Nut fthell~Latst News.
—A young girl in Pennsylvania shot
and killed her seducer.
—There are elks in Arizona which will
weigh two tons after dressing.
—An ear of corn raised in Sumter
county, Tenn., contains 22 rows, or 1,386
grains.
—A Michigan raan liai been sent to
the Penitentiary for fifteen years for hard
swearing.
—A Bradford, Mass., woman revived
while on her way to the grave. She is
now well.
—New England is much exercised
over the exhuming of a newspaper turn
ed to stone.
—A respectable white girl, aged 13,
in Harrisburg, Pa., eloped last week with
a negro man.
• —A Missouri man, the other week,
killed 1,200 pounds of black snakes in a
day, at one spot.
—A St. Louis physician has success
fully administered food to a patient by
hyperdermic injection.
—The eye-sight of a Massachusetts
man has been restored by the falling of a
heavy weight on his head.
—The Greek journals announce the
death of Mrs. Black, Byron’s “ Maid of
Athens.” She was aged 76.
—A small terrier in Meriden, Conn., a
year ago, lost part of his tail, which is
now growing out again at right angles.
—ln excavating an Indian mound in
Illinois, last week, by a crowd of Dutch
and negroes, $17,000 worth of gold bars
were found.
—The gentle cannibals of Auckland
have been gorging themselves to reple
tion on the crews of one English ane two
American vessels.
—The submarine channel between
England and France has been commen
ced. Trains will, in a few years, run
beneath the ocean.
—A hen of rare species died in Booth
bay, Maine, lately, and in her gizzard
was found a shawl pin. She had evi
dently attempted to pin herself back.
—The danger from shells buried in the
earth during the war is not yet over. A
Tennessee farmer, while recently plow
ing in his field, struck a shell which
burst, inflicting serious injuries.
—A young man of Covington, Ky.,
committed a rape upon a highly respect
able young lady whom he was visiting.
He is under arrest, but a release is offer
ed him if he will marry his victim.
—An English surveying party in the
interior of India succeeded lately in cap
turing a couple of wild people, a man
and woman, who inhabit the mountain
ous district of the Western Ghauts.
—The Montreal “ heretic” Guibord is
not buried yet. November 18 is
spoken of as the time when lie will be
consigned to the priest-accursed spot in
his great stone casket —-just six years to
a day since he died.
—Stonewall Jackson’s daughter, in an
other four years, says she is going to take
a husband out of the old Stonewall brig
ade, even if he shall be its only survi
ving member, with both arms gone and
no legs to stand upon.
—The Supreme Court decides that one
man may call another a “ lineal descend
ant of a female canine,” or words to that
effect, on the back of a postal card, with
out being punished for sending obscene
matter through the mails.
—An Alabama man has to buy 100
yards of calico to make a dress apiece
for his girls. There are nine of them.
That’s nothing. A Crawford man has
three grown daughters, and he says he
does durned well to get of with 33J yards
to the dress.
—lnhabitants of the planet Mars can
make the tour of the world there dry
shod, or in forty days if they have ac
complished rapid transit. The land is
not divided off into islands us,
the amount of the water being barely
enough to form lakes.
—John King, of Tennessee, is very
busy asking questions about what has
taken place during the last thirteen
years. He had a farm in Tennessee in
1862, and the soldiers of both armies
made themselves cordially at home on
his premises. So he removed with all
his produce to a cave in the Cumberland
Mountains. A storm threw down a rock
which closed the mouth of the cave.
Therein he lived for thirteen years, in
the dark, eating from his produce and
drinking from a spring. The other day
a railroad company, blasting for a tun
nel, blasted him out.
—A man and his wife, near Wilming
ton, N. C., went away from home for the
day, leaving their children in charge of a
negro girl. On their return the four
children lay dead on the floor, and on
the table wasa half-eaten cabbage. The
girl said the children had eaten of the
cabbage, and soon after were seized with
convulsions and vomiting, and died. The
horror-stricken parents suspected that
the servant had poisoned the children,
and insisted that she should eat some of
the cabbage. She willingly complied,
and partook heartily. A few minutes
after eating she also died. The father
then investigated the cabbage, and found
in the heart of it a small rattlesnake,
boiled to death.
CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 12, 1875.
After a Scalp.
The attraction Saturday was an Indian
buck, accompanied by his squaw, and Al.
Huntington, Brigham’s great interpreter,
perambulating the streets together. The
Battle Ax had a white woman’s scalp,
with very long black hair, attacted to
the hilt of a sword by his side. The scalp
is nearly s as large over as the crown of a
man’s hat, is lined with red flannel, "and
decorated with an eagle’s feather. The
hair is fine and about two feet long, evi
dently that of a young woman.
Dr. Higgins, who has in his time been
called to witness the sickening butche
ries of the redskins, saw the scalp as he
walked up Main street, and, when the re
membrance of Indian outrages flashed
across his mind, his blood boiled with in
dignation to see the populace gaze calm
ly upon the trophy of a heartless deed,
and allow the perpetrator thereof to
flaunt it in their faces. Husbands and
brothers had no response for the doctor
when he appealed to them to stand
shoulder to shoulder with him while he
took the scalp from the Indian, for know
ing that the. Battle-Ax was the guest of
Brigham, he fully realized that the min
ions of the priesthood would interfere on
behalf of Lo, when the scalp should be
taken from him. A Deputy Marshal
said that the doctor did not have the
“ sand” to attempt it, but when an inter
preter asked the Indian if the scalp was
that of a white woman, and was an
swered in the affirmative, Higgins did
not wait for the boys to co-operate with
him, but sailed in on his muscle, and
captured the scalp. A general street
fight was eminent, for the Gentiles rallied
to Higgins to prevent Huntington and
his crowd carrying out their threats, but
the major part of public sentiment was
with Pliggins, who marched off victori
ous. The scalp, doubtless, has an inter
esting, not to say bloody, history, and, if
it had the power of speech, might corob
orate Klingensmith’s of the Mountain
Meadows with shocking detail. The
Mountain Meadows press will probably
condemn this action of Dr. Higgins, but
every right-minded man will give it his
hearty approval. —Salt Lake Tribune.
The Discovery of the Cross,
The festival called the iC Invention of
the Cross,”- instituted in honor of the
finding of the cross in 326 by the Em
press Helena, the mother of Constantine,
is celebrated on the 3d of May. The
story of the discovery is related by Soc
rates, Sozomen, Rufinus, Theodoret,
Paulinus, Setpicius, St. Cyril of Jerusa
lem and Chryssostom ; but Eusebius is
silent regarding it. When Helena visi
ted the scenes about Jerusalem, it is said
that every trace of the great events had
been obliterated by the heathen, and a
temple of Venus stood upon Mount Cal
vary ; but a Jew, who had treasured up
what traditions he could gather, pointed
out the probable place of Christ’s sepul
chre. The spot being excavated, three
crosses were discovered, and the title
which that of Jesus bore was found lying
by itself. It is related that the cross of
Christ was distinguished from the other
by miraculous cures wrought by
touching it. A church was built over
the spot, and a part of the sacred relic
was deposited in it; a part was sent to
Rome, and placed in the Church of Santa
Croce in Gerusalemme, built to receive
it, and the rest was put by Constantine
into the head of a statute of himself in
Constantinople. The first was carried
away by Chosroes, King of Persia, in 614,
but was afterward recovered by the Em
peror Heraclius, who restored it to its
former place in 629. Iu the time of the
Crusades it was borne to battle by the
Christians, and was captured by Saladiu
in 1182, in his great victory near Tibferias.
W r hat is asserted to be a piece of the true
cross is still shown at Rome ; another
was preserved in Poland till the seven
teenth century, when it was presented
by John Casimir to the Princes Palatine
Anna Gonzaga, who bequeathed it to the
monks of St. Germain in Paris; and in
numerable small reputed fragments are
held by Catholics throughout the world.
— Appletons' American Cyclopcedia.
Increase of Eape.
Judge Kerr, of North Carolina, in his
charge to the grand jury of Orange,called
attention to the growing frequency of as
saults upon females with attempt to com
mit violence, and regretted the inade
quacy of the punishment fixed by statute.
Actual rape is punished with death, but
the attempt has only the penalty of im
prisonment in the penitentiary affixed as
a punishment. The attempt is as crimi
nal as the consummation of the crime,
which in most cases is only prevented by
fortuitous circumstances. The object of
the laws on this subject is to protect fe
male chastity and honor. There is an
ineffable stain affixed upon the unfor
tunate victime of even unsuccessful- vio
lence, and therefore there should be no
distinction between the attempt and the
act. We agree with the Raleigh New*
that the laws should be amended in this
particular; for woman must find the
shield of protection thrown around her
everywhere and under all circumstances.
Let the penalty be death, and we will
hear less of the crime.
—One of the happiest and most inde
pendent of all human occupations is that
of an intelligent farmer, whose land is
paid for, and who keeps out of debt.
DEVILTRIES.
The Raciest, Latest and Best Witici&ms.
—“ Generally speaking”—Women.
—The Dentist’s epitaph—“ He’s fill
ing his last cavity.”
—New Bedford is said to have but one
whaler left—a schoolmaster.
—Some men noted for their means are
also noted for their meanness.
—The water is so low in some of the
Western rivers thai the catfish have to
stand on their headlF to breathe.
—A Louisiana paper refers to a con
temporary as a sickly jackas, who edits
a paper half the size of his ears.
—The best paper now issued is the
Greenback, edited bv Treasurer New. It
is not on our exchange list, however.
—An Utica paper says a circss has
been playing in Adam’s Center. It must
have been very uncomfortable for Adam.
—“ Have you a suit of clothes here to
fit a large body of water?” “ No, but we
can sell you a needle and thread with
which to sew a potato patch ou the pants
of a tired dog.”
—A Canada gunsmith started out to
walk the other day with a pipe in his
mouth and two pounds of gunpowder
under his arm. For further particulars
address the coroner and undertaker.
—Put your lower limbs into one leg of
your pantaloons, take the other leg, roll
it into a bunch and tie it behind you ;
then try to walk. That will teach you
how nice and comfortable an uitra pnll
back dress is.'
—A young man employed on Com
merce street is six feet eight inches
high, and weighs lesa than a hundred
pounds. They judge by his appetite that
he is hollow all the way down, and think
of amputating one foot and using him
as a stove pipe.
—Here’s richness. A young man
amed Rowe was arrested in Muncie,
Indiana, Tuesday, charged ivith stealing
money from the eyes of a corpse, with
which he was sitting up. The amount
taken was fifty cent3. Indiana is well
termed the rogue’s den.
—A lady was interrogated by a Bene
dick as to why she did not get married.
She replied: “ I prefer to be an old
maid.” He said he did not believe it, as
he felt sure she envied his wife. “Oh,
no ! that would be breaking the com
mandment—‘Thou shalt not covet thy
neighbor’s ass.’ ”
—A woman cured her husband of stay
ing out late at night by going to the door
when he Came home and whispering
through the key-hole, “ Is that you Wil
lie?” Her husband’s name is John, and
he stays at home every night now, and
sleeps with one eye open and a revolver
under his’pillow.
—The baby was very sick, and as the
father gazed upon it he said to his litjtle
boy: “Ah, Jimmy, what’ll if poor
little baby dies ?” Jimmy thought a
few moYnents, and feeling replied : “Why
bury it, of course, and get another !” and
the manner in which that boy jumped
was simply startling.
—A clergyman was sent for suddenly
to go to *a cottage, where he found a man
in bed. “ Well, my friend, what induced
you to send for me?” The patient, who
was rather deaf, applied to his wife:
“ "What did he say ?” “He said,” shout
ed the woman, “ what the deuce did you
send for him for !”
—A Kentucky editor being challenged
by a county treasurer for calling him the
“ red-headed, malignant mule, who dissi
pates the county money,” produced his
manuscript and showed that he wrote,
“ the big-hearted, valiant soul, who dis
penses the county money.” The treasu
rer withdrew his challenge, and substi
tuted an invitation to an oyster supper
instead.
—A Texas Judge is credited with the
following decision : “ The fact is, Jones,
the jail is an old, rickety affair, a3 cold
as an iron wedge. You applied to the
Court for release on bail, giving it as
your opinion that you would freeze to
death there. The weather has not mod
erated, and to keep you from freezing I
will direct the Sheriff to hang you at 4
o’clock this afternoon.”
—She testified before the magistrate
that “ dot pilly gotes shoost vas a— a—
vel, I vas vashing py some clodings of a
pie tub, und them gotes coom up behind,
und—veil, shoge, I don’t ken told you
how dot vos. I feel mee somedings pe
hind my pack, und shump over der tub
and shtand me on my head up mit dot
tub’s bottom up, und der clodings shpilt
shoost like me, und dem gotes vink at me
vit von eyes und vag his tails of mine
face, und valks py his pehind legs like a
man, und I can’t sit me down cood any
more already.”
—The doctors were just as polite and
gentle in those pioneer days as they are
now, and, catching the spirit of the rap
idly growing country, they felt that t ; me
was the great desideratum. A doctor
living in Macomb county, Michigan,
when called upon to set a broken leg for
a laboring man, examined the limb and
said: “If I set this limb it will be five
or six months before you can walk. If
I saw it off and make a wooden leg'you
will be out splitting rails in less than
three months.” The man declined the
generous offer, and the doctor sighed
drearily as he rolled down his shirt
sleeves.
A Crime of Seven Up for jCßafcy.
We have it from good authority that
near this city, a few days ago, a game of
“ seven up” was played, a litttle girl of
five summers being the prize. The fa
ther bad played and lost everything he
had, and while under the influence of
liquor proposed to put up his little girl
against a certain amount of money. The
proposition was at once accepted, and
the game began. At the last hand the
game stood : lather, 5; opponent, 2. In
the deal the father received the follow
ing tjrumps: King, ton, seven, and tray.
His opponent received ace, jack, four,
and deuce. The father begged, and was
given one, which made him within one
of going out. Confidently believing that
the game was his, he threw down the
king and tray, exclaiming, “ Can you
beat that for high’or low?” His oppo
nent replied that he could beat both, and
showed his hand, and claimed high, low,
jack and the game. The claim was de
nied, the father hoping that he could
take the game himself. The game went
on, resulting in the success of his oppo
nent, who secured the game by two
points. The winner still has the child,
and states that he intends keeping it, un
less the father uses the law to regain his
loss. She is in good hands, much better
than those of her father, who is a wid
ower, and a man of dissolute habits, al
though the possessor of a kindly heart
when not under the influence of liquor.
Council Bluffs Globe.
A Baptism of Blood.
A Paris correspondent relates the fol
lowing story about the great grand-moth
er of the Polish Prince Labomirski, “who
writes so cleverly and chatters ao inces
santly
The unfortunate Princess remained in
Paris during the reign of terror, imagin
ing that her foreign nationality would
save her from the guillotine. The un
happy lady, who was very beautiful,
made a mistake. She had been the inti
mate friend of Princess Lamballee, and
was arrested on a groundless suspicion of
being in correspondence with the Austrian
Government, and hurried off to execution
on the day following that which saw Mme.
Roland perish. Princess Labomirski had
one little daughter, whom she wished to
embrace before she died. A faithful
nurse brought the child in her arms, and
at the risk of her own life, to the very
loot of the scaffold. The wretched moth
er, wishing that her little one should be
recognized in after years by the Labom
irski family, and not being allowed to
write to them, imagined the following
means of identifying her orphan daugh
ter : Stooping, she dipped her finger in
the blood of a victim who had just perish
ed, and wrote these words in big letters
on a scrap of her linen, “ The child with
the letters L. B. scratched on its arm is
my daughter. Princess Labomirski.”
Then, taking a pin, she scratched the
initials on the arm of her child, embraced
it, and a few minutes afterward laid her
head under the knife. The nurse, # when
the reign of terror was over, took the child
to Poland, where, being recognized by
her mother’s family, in the course of
years she married her cousin, Prince
Ladislas Labomirski. The present
Prince has often seen the initial scar on
his grandmother’s arm. The old lady
only died a few years ago.
Turkish Extravagance.
In England, the richest country in the
world, the prime-minister receives £5,000
per annum; in Turkey, the poorest
country in Europe, the grand-vizer draws
£30,000 a year, while the civil-list, and
the salaries of all the high officials, are
vastly more than those of the Queen and
ministers of Great Britain. Mr. T.
Brassey, the honorable member for Hast
ings, who is on a cruize in his yacht, the
Sunbeam, has sent home for publication
a series of letters relating to his voyage.
Dating from Constantinople, he writes,
relative to the Government of Turkey :
“ The authorized civil-list of the Sultan
is about £1,200,000, and by means of
more or less arbitrary grants, it is actual-
ly little less than £2,000,000 a year. All
along the shores of the Bosphorus vast
palaces and elaborate kiosks occurred in
succession at a distance or little more
than a mile apart Some of these build
ings are furnished in the most costly style.
The daily dinner of the Sultan—he
always dines alone —consists of ninety
four dishes ; and ten other meals are pre
pared in case it should be his fancy to
partake of them. He has eight hundred
wives, attended and guarded by three
hundred and fifty eunuchs. For this
enormous household forty thousand oxen
are yearly slaughtered ; and the purvey
ors are required to furnish daily two hun
dred sheep, one hundred lambs or goats,
ten calves, two hundred hens, two hun
dred pairs of pullets, one hundred pairs
of pigeons, and fifty green geese. Be
tween the profligate luxury of the estab
lishment of the sovereign and the miser
able poverty of too many of his subjects,
the contrast is truly melancholy. The
incomes of the principal ministers of the
state are such as would grievously shock
the radical reformers of our own country.
The salary of the Grand Yizer is £30,-
000 ; of the Minister of France, £II,OOO ;
and so in proportion for the other princi j
pal ministers.” —English paper.
—Negroes have been serving on juries
i in Bibb county since ISOlb
VOL II—NO. 6.
HUMOR.
A Modern Kolonion-An Old Rule nitli
# Screw 1.005.■.
A New "iork Judge of an inferior
Court attempted, recently, to enact the
part of Solomon, the disputants who ap
peared before him being Chinese, and
the cause of contention a dog. The
World, most happily, describes the affair
in these words :
“ Hwang Lee and Ah Wing,” said his
Honor, as he beat a rather low brow upon
a pair of Celestials who stood before him.
“ W hat do you say to the charge of
disorderly conduct brought against you
“Ah Wing, he lun away my dog,”
pleaded Hwang Lee.
“ Hwang Lee wliatee Melican man
caliee dam lire. Hwang Lee comee my
laundly, stealee my dog all ltkee Melican
dam thief!” pleaded Ah Wing.
“ Is it not remarkable,” said the Judge,
“ that these strange people, so far behind
the civilized world in many respects, yet
possess in common with us an affection
for the lower animals? I must discover
to which of the prisoners the quadruped
rightfully belongs, and that, too, by
means of a strategy- once employed by- a
somewhat famous Biblical predecessor.
Officer Brown, bring the dog and a meat
axe into court.”
It was done.
“ Now, then, Ah Wing and Ilwang
Lee,” resumed the Court, assuming a
style of pronunciation meant to he clear
ly comprehensible. “ Officer, comee
chopee doggee in twoee. Ah Wing takee
halfee and Hwang Lee takee halfee. Un
derstandee ?”
A painful silence was at last broken by
Ah Wing, who remarked calmly, “Alloc
light, Judge, so officer givee me halfee
got em dog’s libs in hem.”
“ Affection has spoken in silence,”
said the Judge, triumphantly ; “ let
Hwang Lee have the dog.”
“Thankee, Judge,” said that prisoner,
as he lifted up tire obese animal. “Ah
Wing he nothaveedamhite; Hwang Lee
eatee dog all up self.”
“ Five dollars or five days each,” said
the disgusted Judge, as his estimate of
the celestial in human nature fell down
to zero.
Hsw a Bead Hog Killed a Kan.
A negro man in the adjoining county
of Baldwin killed a large hog in the
woods. He opened the animal, removed
the entrails, and devised a method of car
rying the pork which was altogether sui
generis. This manner of transportation
was effected by tying the hind legs to
gether, passing his head between them,
and, the heavy carcass being in front,
easing the weight on his neck by- lifting
on the fore legs with his hands. It is
presumed that he got along remarkably
well until a rail fence got in his way, and,
in order to climb this, he needed his
hands. Accordingly, he relieved them
by lifting the hog over the top rail and
letting it drop on the other side. It is
presumed that he proposed to follow the
hog, hut he didn’t. A few days since a
congregation of buzzards attracted atten
tion to a locality where a negro man was
found hanging on one side of a rail fence
and a hog on the other, the weight of the
animal evidently having pressed his neck
down upon the rail until he was choked
to death.
—An Irishman gives the following de
scription of the mode of killing owls in
the “ Ould Counthry” : “ Well, ye know,
the gintleman goes ®ut into the woods
an’ looks around among the trees till he
finds an owl a sittin’ on a limb, an’ he
looks at the owl an’ the owl looks at him,
an’ thin the gintleman commences a
walkin’ around the tree, an’ the owl
kapes his eye on him an’ toorns his head
around widout toorning his boddy, and
the gintleman kapes on walkin’ round
an’ round the tree, an’ the owl kapes on
toorning his head till he twists his neck
off an’ falls down' dead, an’ the gintle
man picks him oop an’ carries the cra
ther home.”
—The huge bronze ball which supports
the cross on top of St. Peter's cupola at
Rome can easily contain thirteen persons
at once. In summer its interior is as
an oven, and in winter it needs no stove
for the comfort of visitors. Ladies have
an awfully jolly time getting in and out
of it by means of a ladder; and, as a gen
eral thing, they prefer not to follow, but
to preceede their gentlemen escorts in
the descent. From the square below the
gilded ball looks the size a pumpkin.
Americans generally go for it.
—A Connecticut Yankee, whose father
doubtless sold basswood hams and maple
nutmegs, took the first premium on bar
ley at his county fair the other day. The
grains were so large and plump that
every other exhibitor was compelled to
hide his diminished head. It afterwards
leaked out that the unusual size of the
grains was owing to their having been
judiciously soaked in water before being
exhibited.
—The Telegraph of St. John, N. 8.,
says that a lady, who resided in a village
on the river St. John, assisted recently to
prepare the body of a neighbor for burial.
While engaged some virus from the dead
was absorbed into a slight cut on the la
dy’s finger, and a few hours later she was
seized with intense pain in her baud, at
tended by a rapid swelling. After days
of severe suffering she died.
THE OGLETHORPE ECH(J
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LEGAL ADEVRTISEMENTB.
Administrator's Sale.
TVTII-L BE SOLD BEFORE TIIE COURT
t t Ilon.sedoormthi* county
on the first TUESDAY in December, 1675,
within the legal hours of sale, by virtue of an
order from the Court of Ordinary of said
county, the following Real Estate, belonging
to the estate of William T. Dauiel, deceased,
to-wi;: All that tract or parcel of LAND, ly
ing and being in the comity of Oglethorpe,
situate in and immediately ndjoiniug to the
illage of Woodstock, and known as the place
whereon Robert G. Daniel resided at the time
oi iiis death. Said tract of Land contains
Three Hundred amt Eighty Acres, more o#
i k.- i, aim is splendidly iinj> roved. A Plat of
the Land cun bes- eu by calling on Mr. John
J. Daniel, who resides on the place.
Ti ms of Side —One-fourth cash, one-fourth
on It! of January. 1577, one-fourth one the
Ist of January, IK K ami oiijjfourt.li Ist Jan
uary, IK'. l , with interest at If) per cent, per
annum on deferred payments. Titles mads
when last payment is made.
WM. H. BRANCH,
Administrator of Wyi- T. Daniel.
November Ist, 1875. (£l7)
AdiuiriKraters* Kale.
p Y VIRTUE i)F AN ORtfcp. FROM THE
ID* Court of Ur iinury of Oglethorpe county,
Georgia, tin re will,be sold before the'Court
Douse door, in the town of Lexington, in aid
comity, on the FIRST TUESDAY IN DE
CEMBER next, within the legal houre of
sale,Two Hundred aud Tweuty-seyeu Acres of
Land, more or less, belonging to the estate of
Eiizalietli jvhvo.rd-.deeawed, adjoining lands
of 11. lvimichrov , W. D. Faust, Lacv Banks,
and others, it being the place whereon saiu
deceased formerly resided. -
Sol i for the benefit of the heirs and credit
ors of said deceased.
Terms cash.
Lexington, October 20, 1675. "
TIIOK J EDWARDS,
WM. li. EDWARDS,
novo-ji<l psi 2) Administrators.
Sstray Rotiee.
Tolled before me as an ebtray
on the 14th day ofOctoherJ,B7/>Jir James
J. Green, of the 230th Difit., G. M., of Oglo
tii rj ■ county, Ga., cue COW, aged alaiut six
years, aud marked as follows: head, neck,
shoulders aud sides red; balance red anti
white speckled, with no artificial murk, and
appraise lat thirteen dollars.
The owner is hereby notified to appear her
fore me, prove property, pay costs, end take
said Cow away, or it.will be cold on the free
hold wli re t.iXen up, by the Sheriff or some
legal ofiie r, on SATURDAY, the sixth day
of November, 1 75.
Niven under my hi- 1 and official signa
ture, this 29th day of O.W>er, 1675.
It ($2) T. ]>. GILHAM, Ordinary.
O TATE OF GEORGIA, OGLETHORPE
O GOUNTY. —Petition for Letters of.
Guardianship. Whkkhas, Mrs. B. K. Roane
has applied this day to me, by written peti*,
tion, for Letters of Guardianship of the person
and property of Y> iiliaia 11. Deadwyler and
Jimmie E. Deadwyler, minor children
J jk>T-%a*tcr j dvvutKtl~*
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish
all persons interest, and to be and appear at my
office, on or before the first Monday in De
cember, 1875, to show cause, if any they rxo,
why said Letters siiould not lie granted.
Given under my hand and official signature,
at office, this Ist day of November. 1876.
(£4) THOMAS i). GILIIAM, Ordinary.
Gl EOF.aiA, (X'.LETiiORPE COUNTY.
X Court of Ordinary, at Chambers, No
vember 3d, I>>7s.
Notice.
To Thomas J. IVo tier, Ere. of or of Tt. B. Wal
ler, deceased, and to the Tides at la w of said
deceased :
It appearing to the Court, by the petition of
Willis Hoff, (a person of color,) that B. B.
Waller,deceased,late of said county, (lid, in his
life time, execute to said Willis Hoff (aperson
of color,) liis Bonds, conditioned to execute
titles in fee simple to said Willis Iloff. (a per
son of color, j to a eertai i tract or parcel of land
lying in said county and buondea as follows :
(in the south by T. Amis, east by B. B. Faust,
north and west by lands oi’sald B. B. Waller,
deceased —containing One Hundred Acres,
with ail the rights, members aud appurten
ances to said lot of Land, in any wise apper
taining or belonging.
And it further appearing that said B. B.
Waller departed this lile without executing
titles to said tract or parcel of land, or by will
or otherwise providing therefor
And it further appearing that said Willis
Hoff, (a person of color,) has paid the full
amount of the purchase price oi said tract or
parcel of land —
And said Willis Iloff, ta person of color,)
having petitioned this Court to direct Thomas
J. Waller, the executor upon the estate of B.
B. Waller, b-c- ; • to execute to him titles
to said trio t or parcel of Laud, in conformity
with said Bonds:
Thcr-jorr, All p rsons concerned are here
by notified and i .quired to file.their objec
tions, (if any t;.;-y have in my office within the
time per.-eriVd by law,! wily said Executor
should not be ordered to execute Titles to said
tractor ]. reel of Lands in conforming with
said bonds.
Audit, is fiirtltc) ordered That a copy of
this Rule be published in theOwißTHOliP
Echo, the oiik lai gaxatte of Oglethorpeconty
for thirty days.
THOMAS D. GUJIAM, Ordinurv.
$22.50 ■
Oglelhoi'pc Lkti?ii£T-‘fci Dale.
A \7ILL BE SOLD ON THE FIRST
\ V TUESDAY in December next, before
the Court House door, in the town of Lexing
ton, Oglethorp ' county, within the legal hours
of Win, the int *r st of Wn. Hi Hopkins in
the following tracts of LAND : One tract of
Land contain imr One Hundred and Fifty
Acres, more or Las. lying in Oglethorpe coun
ty, adjoining lands of Joel J. Bacon, G. H.
Letter and others. (£-5)
—ALSO —
One other tract of Land, containing Three
Hundred and Fifty Acres, the Home iTace of
said Wm. H. Ll’pkins, in sai l county, ad
joining land- of Z. 11. Clark, Willis B. Jack
son and others. The intcre.-t of said Hop
kins Long a life estate in said tract of Land.
Levied on as the property of Wm. U. Hop
kins, by virtue of three ii. fas. issued from the
Justice Court of the 223 th Dmcrtot, G. H., in
favor of McWhorter, i oung *£ Cos. vs. .1L
Ilopkius. Levy made er.d returned to me by
a Constable.
Lexington, October 27, 1875.
(£5 ) M. it. YOUNG, Dep’y Sheriff.
hiurifl’s Kale.
TX7II.L BE 8 )L 1 ) ON THE FI RKT TUES-,
> V DAY in December next, before the
Court House door, in the town of l>-xington,
Oglethorpe county, wi'Lin the legal hours of
sale, or,- tra-tof Land, containing Three Hun
dred and Fifty Acres, more or less, in said
count v, adjoining iands of Joe jgh 11. McW hor
ter, Mrs. N. Cramer, Mrs. Anna Hunter and
others. Levied on as tSie property of John A.
Jewel, by virtue of a fi fa. i-n’-d from the
Court of Ordinary of said county, in favor of
Anna Mere, now Anna Young, vs. John A.’
Jewell, guardian. Said tract of land in pos
session of John A. Jewell, and have given the
notice required by law to said John A. Jew
ell. ‘ ‘ ($5)
M. H. YOUNG, Dep’y Sheriff.
November 3,1875. ($5)
NEEDLES
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* CHINES, a: \V :o!es:de and Retail, hv
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i rnHL BEST ANDSAi EST INVESTMETS?
i 1. is year’s a .'ttbs-'-ription tothe Ech*>.'