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“THS BRIGHT BIOE.”
The following lines, written by a lady
of this county, are far above ordinary
merit. We would like to hear from her
often:
There is many a rest in the road of life
If we would only stop to take it,
And many a tone from the better land
If the querrelous heart would wake it.
To the sunny soul that is full of hope,
And whose beautiful trust ne’er faileth,
The grass is green and the flowers are bright
Though the wintry storm prevaileth.
Better to hope, though the clouds hang low,
And to keep the eyes still lifted :
For the sweet blue sky will soon peep through
When the ominous clouds be rifted.
There was never a night without a day,
Or an evening without a morning;
And the darkest hour, as tiie Proverb goes,
Is the hour before the dawning.
There is many a gem in the path of life,
Which we pass in our idle pleasure,
That is richer than the jeweled crown
Or miser's hoarded treasure.
It may be the love of a little child,
Or a mother’s prayer to Heaven ;
Or only a beggar's grateful thanks
For a cup of water given.
Better to weave in the web of life
A bright and golden filling,
And do God’s will with a ready heart
And hands that arc swift and willing,
Than to snap the delicate slender threads
Of our curious lives asunder,
An.l then blame Heaven for the tangled ends
And sit aud grieve and wonder.
♦♦♦
TOl KISSED HI..
5 ou kissed me ! My head dropped
Low' on your breast,
With a feeling of shelter
And infinite rest.
While the thrilling emotions
My tongue dare not speak,
Flashed up like a flame
From my heart to my cheek !
Your arms held me fast—•
Oh ! your arms were so bold ;
Heart beat against heart
In their passionate hold ;
Your glances seemed drawing
My soul through my eyes,
As the sun draws the mist
From the sea to the skies ;
And your lips clung to mine
Till I prayed in my bliss
They might never unclasp
From that rapturous kiss.
You kissed me ! My heart and
My breath and my will
In delirious joy
For the moment stood still;
Life had for me then
No temptations, no charms,
No vision of happiness
Out of your arms ;
And were I, this instant,
An angel, possessed
Of the joy and the peace
That are given the blest,
1 would fling my white robe
Unrepiningly down,
And tear from my forehead
It’s beautiful crown,
To nestle once more
In that haven of rest,
With your lips upon mine
And my head on your breast.
You kissed me ! my soul
In a bliss so divine,
Reeled like a drunken man
Foolish with wine.
And I thought ’twere delicious
To die there, if death
Would come while my lips were
Yet moist with your breath.
’Twere delicious to die,
If my heart might grow cold
While your arms wrapped me round
In that passionate fold.
And these are the questions
I ask day and night—
Must my lips taste but once
Such exquisite delight ?
Would you care if your breast
M ere my shelter, as then,
And if you were here
Would you kiss me again ?
Buying Votes in Mississippi.
I witnessed many strange scenes at
the polls, and around about among the
crowd. This sort of thing was repeated
often by men who were supplied with
money for the purpose. A man would
select his darkey and operate on him in
this wise ?”
“ Uncle, have you voted ?”
“ No, sah.”
“ Going to vote ?”
“Yes, sah.”
“ How ?”
“The ’Publican ticket, sah.”
“ Can't I persuade you to vote the
Democratic ticket?”
“No, sah.”
“ You are afraid to vote it, are you ?”
“ No, sah ; not a bit.”
“ I’ll bet two dollars you are afraid to
step up there and vote the Democratic
ticket.”
“Me ’fraid! No, sah ; dis nigger ain’t
’fraid ; he ain’t the skeery sort, he ain’t.”
“ Well, I’ll bet two dollars you are
afraid to do it.”
“ Put up your money. I’ll take dat
bet, sah; I’m no skeery nigger.”
The money is handed to a third party.
The negro is given a Democratic ticket
and accompanied to the polls by a white
man, who sees that it is voted. Then the
negro returns, and is paid the “ wager”
he has .von!
A neat way that to buy votes, and at
the same time escape the penalty of the
law. *
The loss of cotton this year, for want
of picking, is estimated by an exchange
at five million dollars in gold. That is
what political canvassing has cost, and
Jthe negro loses his share.
Hljc (Oc(lctl)orpc Cell®,
BY T. L. GANTT.
BRIEFLETS.
The World In a Nat Nhell-Lutett New*.
—ln Texas young camels bring $450.
—An lowa father, last Week, murdered
his own son.
—A mosquito hasn’t been seen in Texas
since the cyclone.
—A Missouri woman 77 years old re
cently gave birth to a fine boy.
—A daughter of Jefferson Davis is soon
to be married to a Memphis bank cashier.
—Castor oil is foilnd to be the best and
most durable lubricator for buggy axles.
—Shroeder, the aeronaut, proposes to
try his huge flying machine at Baltimore
next Monday.
The 25th day of November is pro
claimed by President Grant as the Nation
al Thanksgiving Day.
—The champion small baby is in Phil
lips county, Kansas. Age, twenty-five
days; weight, thirty ounces.
—A New York dog, while out hunt
ing, found a well-filled pocket-book and
carried it in his mouth to bis owner.
—The 350 churches in New York city
pay annually for church music over
$500,000 —aud some of it not first-class
at that.
—lt is charged that a few of the Radi
cal leaders in Alabama are organizing
the negroes in opposition to the new Con
stitution.
— M iss Mary Thomas, daughter of the
late Judge Thomas, died at the lunatic
asylum of epileptic convulsions, on the
24th Oct. last.
—The ghoul of scandal again unfolds
its wings from the roost on Plymouth
Church, and spreads theip, dripping with
slime, over the land.
—A Louisville man advances the the
ory that the earth is hollow, and that its
interior is inhabitable and approachable,
by way of the North Pole.
—Something vty extraordinary about
the Mormons is that 85 per cent, of
children born are males, and there are
no dark-eved or dark-haired ones.
—A man was pardoned from the
Charlestown State Prison Friday, after
serving almost eight years ou a life
sentence for a crime which he never com
mitted.
—Experiments recently made in Lon
don, in which either oil or glycerine is
made to perform the functions of steam
by the application of heat, are exciting
no small interest.
—The brig Palo Alto, of New York,
while off the coast ot Cuba, found sever
al decomposed bodies of seamen on a
rock, where they had been shipwrecked
and starved to death.
—You may wear those striped stock
ings if you want to, Miss, but chemists
say that poison—geuuine arsenic—lurks
in every brilliant stripe, and that it will
ruin your pretty ankles.
—The settlers in the Valley of the Ar
kansas are doing a profitable business by
gathering up buffalo bones. A clean
sweep has been made of the valley for
forty miles each way from the railroad.
—lt is said that the mules in the Penn
sylvania coal mines, hundreds of feet be
low the surface and half a mile from the
shaft, have the epizootic, although none
of them have been above ground in
months.
—A terrible tornado swept over a por
tion of Florida last week. Many per
sons were buried within the ruins of
their houses, and children picked up and
carried away. Loss of property is im
mense.
—A coffin-maker at Ind.,
having taken to himself a wife and being
desirous of sending a sample casket to a
customer at Terre Haute used the sample
as an envelope for the customary cake
and cards.
—A negro man near New Bloomfield,
Pa., abducted the daughter of his employ
er, and kept her bound in a cave in the
woods for several months before she was
discovered. When carried home her
reason had fled.
—A small child, near Sedalia, Mo.,
fell into a pen of hogs, and was killed
and eaten by them. When the father
went to feed them he found the cleanly
picked bones of his child scattered around
the pen, two hogs fighting over the head.
—A man near ludianapolis, Ind., last
week, murdered three ot his little child
ren, and attempted to kill the fourth
and his wife, but they made their es
cape after being wounded. Subsequent
ly, while attempting to escape from the
officers of the law, the brute was crushed
to death under a train.
—ln Milan, Tenn., there is a negro 126
years old, who participated in the revo
lutionary war and could easily have
signed the Declaration of Independence
if free blacks of twenty-one years had
not been excepted from the privileges of
citizenship by the laws then in vogue.
He will be at the Centennial.
—ln the grounds of the Royal Naval
School at Greenwich, England, several
coffins, lately disinterred after more than
thirty years’ burial, were found “as
bright and fresh as on the day they were
made,” even their brass nails remaining
untarnished, and the bodies contained in
them were equally well preserved, the
embroidery on an infant’s dress being
“as unruffled and complete as if it had
only just left the hands of the dress
maker.”
CRAWFORD, GEORGI, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 19, 1875.
DEVILTRIES.
The Raciest. Latest and Best W 1 tic-isms.
—Turkeys begin to look serious. The
melancholy days are coming for them.
—The devil is getting a good deal of no
toriety just now, through Conway’s lec
tures.
—Again do we have to pay our atten
tion to this mongrel whelp. — Beginning of
a Mississiippi editorial.
—The price of squaws has declined on
the approach of winter. One can now
be purchased for $7 in cash and a pound
of powder.
—The New York papers tell about a
“drawback on sugar.” That’s nothing.
There has been a fearful pull back on
’lasses all summer.
—A Pennsylvanian named Wingert
cut his toe off because of an aching corn,
and then hung himself because of the ach
ing of the amputated toe.
—Two old crows which perch on a tree
in Dudly, Mass., every afternoon, and
caw until hundreds of others are collec
ted, are called Moody and Sankey,
—One hundred and five Mormon mis
sionaries are to be sent out this winter
to preach the gospel of polygamy to the
63,000 superfluous women of Massachu
sets.
—Go to law, will you ? It cost a Prov
idence doctor $6 to get an attachment
the other day on some property, the sale
of which subsequently realized fifteen
cents.
—Caleb Cushing says that the United
States will have a population of 50,000,-
000 in five years from now, and yet he
has never done anything as we can hear
of to aid the cause.
—A Nebraska doctor furnished a scalp
ed soldier with a piece of Buffalo hide
and made his head as good as new. The
only trouble with the hair is that it
“ sheds” twice a year.
—A Dobuque clerk has just been
tried for kicking a woman. As she was
not his wife, the jury thought he ought
to be punished for it, and a verdict was
rendered accordingly.
—They have found a petrified Mormon
in Utah, and from the number of dents
in the head, evidently made with a po
ker and flatiron, it is judged that he had
at least thirty-three wives.
—For fifty cents a Detroit astrologist
predicts one husband and a moderately
happy life. For a dollar she predicts a
second husband worth a million dollrrs,
with dead loads of happiness.
—The remarkable absence of a smoky
atmosphere during the Indian summer
at Omaha and other Western points is
accounted for by the fact that the tobac
co served out to the Indians was too poor
to smoke.
—A few more years of war in Cuba,
and the island will only need a white
washed fence around it and a few tomb
stones, to proclaim it to the passer-by the
largest and best filled cemetery on the
globe.
—“ Yel, you see, my friedt, I goes into
beeziness mit anuder veller, und dotoder
vellow vurnish der capital und I vurnish
beeziness experience, und pretty soon,
—four years, dot beeziness is vount oop,
und I got der capital und dot oder veller
got der experience.”
—lf you are going to Italy leave your
dollar-store jewelry at home. When the
brigands capture an American and find
all his jewelry is the plated stuff they off
with his head, to prevent some other en
terprising brigand from being defrauded;
but if his valubles are genuine, he is re
lieved of them, and permitted to depart
in peace.
—About 2 o’clock the other morning a
Norwich policeman found a man sitting
on the sidewalk. Naturally, he asked
him what was the matter. “ Well,” said
the man, sadly, “ my wife thinks I am
drunk. I’ve tried twice to get in at the
front door and she’s put me out both
times, and my self-respect won’t allow me
to try it again. So I’m waiting till she’s
quieted down a little, aud then I think I
can crawl through the cellar window.”
—A husband and his wife took their
infant son to the Rev. John Henry Jones
for baptism. “ What name?” asked the
clergyman, as they were arranged before
the congregation. “ George Washington
Podgers,” whispered the father. “No ;
Isaac Newton Podgers,” spoke out the
wife. “Tut, tut,” interrupted the preach
er ; “my name is a good one; take that.
John Henry Podgers, I baptise thee in
the name of the Father, and of the Son,
and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.” The
couple went away smiling, and the hus
band afterward said that the preacher
had saved him from the biggest kind of
a row.
—A Methodist preacher travelling in
the back settlement of a Western State,
stopped at a cabin where an old lady re
ceived him very kindly, giving him a
warm supper and asking him many
questions : “ Stranger, where mout you
be from ?” “ Madame, I reside in Shel- !
by county, Kentucky.” “ Well, stranger,
hope no offense, but what mought you be
doing out here ?” “ Madam, I am look
ing for the lost sheep of the tribe of Is
rael.” “ John,” shouted the old lady,
“ here’s a stranger all the way from Ken
tucky a hunting lost stock, and I’ll just
bet my life that old curly haired, black
ram that came into our yard last week is
one of his’n.”
A HAUNTED kbtJSE.
A Dwelling which Is Claimed to ho Vis
ited Nightly by Ghosts.
A case has recently c<nae to light in
our midst which i9 well calculated to set
the skeptical to thinking, if not to fill
their minds with bewildment and wonder.
Last evening a woman resided in Second
Ward, wild with terror, and white as a
sheet, rushed into a neighboring house
and sank lifeless into a chair. As soon
as she could recover sufficient command
of her voice to speak, she declared that
her house was the scene of the most un
earthly and terrifying sounds, and that
mysterious footsteps were heard in seve
ral places about the house, resembling
the walking of persons in their stdckliig
feet over the floors in a number of rooms,
at once. It was with great difficulty that
she could be persuaded to g 6 back to the
house until the return of the rest of the
occupants, who had gone out to spend
the evening. Receiving the assurance
that nothing should harm her if she re
turned, and that a number of the family
would remain with her until the reumof
her friends, she w r ent home and was ac
companied by several friends, who sug
gested, on arriving at the house, that a
search be instituted through it to see what
discoveries might be made. The sug
gestion was acted upon, and each person
with a lighted lamp in their hand search
ing most minutely in every nook and cor
ner for the cause or causes of the most
singular and frightful noises complained
of. Nothing was found, however, and
the search ended, leaving the matter en
veloped in mystery deeper than ever.
Information was then had for the first
time by the lady occupying the house
that it was haunted, and several families
had suffered the same horrifying experi
ence previously, but that the matter had
been hushed up before it had become
generally known, and it was darkly hin
ted that the purse of a party very much
interested in the affair being kept a dead
secret, had been very much depleted for
that purpose. Be that as it may, there
is one thing which is a fact, and that is
this : the writer has positive proof that if
the dwelling is not haunted it is the cen
ter of occurence that are not explained
by any natural agency, ard are surpri
sing to the most incredulous. It is a fact
that an old lady, who rumor says was most
shamefully treated by her kith and kin,
occupied the house for some time. That
in consequence of the alleged ill-treat
ment she received at the hands of her
own flesh and blood she dealt out, and
with an unsparing tongue, much that
might as well have been left unsaid. In
time she died, but with what feelings to
wards her relatives will probably never
be known. It is said that she consented
to “ forgive and forget” when on her
death-bed, but of this there is but little,
if any proof. From all that can be
learned she was buried in a proper man
ner, and the circumstances in which she
lived and died were, after a time, as it
were, forgotten.
Shortly after her decease, however, the
strange noises spoken of began to be heard
and have been kept up constantly ever
since. During the last week or two bol
ted doors have been opened in the most
mysterious manner, windows have been
partly raised and dropped suddenly, oc
casioning a startling crash. Dishes have
been thrown from pantry shelves, smash
in them to pieces, and groans have been
heard from midnight until about 1 o’clock
in the morning at irregular intervals.
One of the occupants of a certain room
in the house has been unable to get to
sleep for hours, although in perfect health
and formerly remarkable for the case
with which they could go to sleep.
Sounds of heavy breathing, like that of
some person in a deep sleep, have been
heard for several minutes at a time, but
from what direction they proceeded could
not be ascertained. The same person
who has found it difficult to sleep was
awakened night before last from sleep
almost in a second’s time, and sat bolt
upright in bed, looking about the rjora
in amazement at wakingso suddenly, and
every desire for sleep vanished in an in
stant. Three or four nights since they
were awakened by the movement of
something invisible pulliug the clothing
from the bed. They laid quietly for a
few moments to see if it was imagination !
or a reality. The clothing was actually
being drawn from the bed, and thinking
that burglars might have gained access
to the room and were endeavoring to get
hold of the personal clothing of the sleep
er, a light was struck almost instantly,
but nothing could be seen, and all be
came as still as death. These are but
occurrences that have taken place at the !
house recently, but they are sufficient to
show that there is some thing very re
markable in the case, if it is not wonder
ful, and one of those things which no one
can find out. Investigation of the mat- |
ter is to be made in the most thorough j
manner, and the whole facts brought to 1
light, if possible. The house is a plain
but respectable looking two-story white
house, standing among a number of dwel
lings of the same sort. It has no look of
mystery, and in fact in the spring and !
summer season whould undoubtedly be
an extremely pleasant place for a resi
dence. We are requested not to refer ■
more particularly to the matter until the
investigation that is pending is concluded
and the causes of the singular occurrence
are made known.
THE FLEA.
Wonderful I'eaU by this Little Insert--
Brought ttt Subjection.
Signor Bertollotto, a venerable Italian,
upward of sixty, in connection with the
flea has established a European reputa
tion. Yesterday he had his menagerie at
39 Union square, and invited a select au
dience to witness his performance, which
to-day is thrown open to the public. The
exhibitor is a genial old man, with a
voice modified by long intercourse with
his minute friends ; his hand, though
large, possesses an exquisite delicacy of
touch, and he tftnds dver and fondles his
singular pets as though he felt a real af
fection for them. In 1832 he began the
trdihing of fleas in England, and amass
ing a considerable fortune retired from
professional life. Recently times have
gone hard with him, and again he sum
mons the fleas to his rescue. The Pro
fessor’s present troupe consists of 100
female fleas (male fleas are discarded as
utterly intractable), which were brought
from Canada, the Professor making the
delightful announcement that fleas are
extremely scarce in the United States.
The performance yesterday opened with
a passage-at-arms between Don Quixote
and Sancbo Panza, two blood-thirsty
fleas, that mounted on tiny paper horses
attacked each other with spears. The
tiny paper horses being stationary, no
great damage was done to either of the
contestants, but the fleas really appeared
actuated by deadly hatred and whirled
the little spears about in a furious man
ner. Next au illustration of the immense
strength of the creatures was given in
the performance of an herculean flea,
who being harnessed to a little guilt
chariot, weighing just 1,200 times his own
weighs drew the same about the table.
As an agent of locomotion, however, the
flea is not as much of a success as in
some other particulars, for its legs, being
centered in the immediate neighborhood
of its head, there is au unavoidable slov
enly appearance about the way in which
it carries the remainder of the body; and
besides, the natural gait of the flea is
that of the agile kangaroo, and it can
never be trained to assume a comely trot.
However, the little creature shambled
around with the chariot, and one of its
fellows sat on the box, as dignified a dri
ver as ever cracked a whip.
A CONVICT FLEA AND SOCIETY FLEAS.
A wild flea was next produced, one
that had never received any educational
advantages. Its habit was still that of
the creature who live only to hop and
bite, and a chain and ball attached to
the hind leg told of its unfitness to asso
ciate unrestrained with its civilized
brothers. The chain and ball were of
gold, the former being just one inch in
length and containing 400 links. On
the same microscopic plan all the para
phernalia used was constructed, little
hats and coats fitting with remarkable
nicety. Other of these remarkable in
sects were made to turn cranks and hoist
buckets, but the chcf-d’muvre of the en
tertainment was some two dozen fleas at
a ball. At oue eud of the ball-room was
a complete orchestra, each flea holding
its peculiar instrument in readiness for
the dance. On the floor two couples
were seen, and on a tiny sofa another
was engaged, at least so said the Profes
sor, in a very desperate flirtation. A
music box then set in motion, and at the
first sound the little insects began their
respective vocations, those on the floor
whirling about in the dance and those in
the orchestra working their legs, to
which were attached the instruments, in
a most enthusiastic manner. When the
size of the flea is remembered the task
of handling them at all will be appreci
ated. Fortunately, they are as tough as
porcupines, and can be unceremoniously
picked up with little pincers without
hurting them. The average lifetime of a
flea is about eight months, and as four
months is required in subduing their
spirits and altering their gait from a hop
to a trot it will be seen that the process
of training is an endless one.
AN ECONOMICAL COMMISSARIAT.
Of the 800 fleas in this collection about
half are performers and have to be taken
from their harness of threads once a day
to be fed. Their fodder is nothing less
than the blood of the professor, who per
mits the whole flock to browse on his left
arm every morning.— World.
Something for Our School Boys.
Any number of figures you wish to
multiply by 5 will give the same result if
divided by 2—a much quicker operation ;
but you must remember to annex a cipher
to the answer whenever there is no re
mainder, and when there is a remainder,
whatever it may be, annex a 5 to the
answer. Multiply 464 by 5, and the
answer will be 2,320 ; divide the same
number by 2 and you have 232, and, as
there is no remainder, you add a cipher.
Now take 357 and multiply by 5 ; there j
is 1,785. Diivde the same number by 2,
and you have 178 and a remainder; you
therefore place a 5 at the end of the line,
and the result is again 1,785.
An army twenty-five miles in length,
marches twenty-five miles. At the mo
ment of starting a courier is ordered
from the rear to the front—he overtakes
the head of the army, and returns to the
rear of it just as the army has finished
its twenty-five mile journey. How many
mites did the cornier travel ?
VOL. II—NO. 7.
FROM IOWA.
A Strange anil Improbable Stry--Ea
•lly Accounted For.
fc'ome months ago a Muscatine young
lady accepted the situation as teacher in
a school a few miles from the city. Re
turning home recently she was taken sick,
and a physician called. An examination
revealed the fact that she was about to
become a mother. The terrible opinion
fell like a thunderbolt upon the parents;
but it smote the heart of the girl with a
grief and terror and amazement which
no language can describe. She could
not and would not believe her physician.
Her pale lips asserted and reasserted the
most postivc innocene of any and all
circumstances leading to such a result.
She as solemnly affirmed her ignorance
of her condition until thus informed bv
the physician. On inquiring into her
relations with the family boarding her,
it was ascertained that there were two
grown-up sons, but there was no cireum
stances showing the least improper inti
macy between either of them and the
teacher, or between her or any other
party in the neighborhood. Her deport
ment in the district school had been most
scrupulonsly correct.
That she must have been drugged was
the only remaining explanation was di
rected, and the girl stated that on one
occasion one of the sons above mention
ed advised her to keep the door pf her
chamber looked at night. Up to that
time she had not locked her door ; but
did subsequently• No other circumstance
was elicited to throw any light upon the
mystery.
Ihe farmer with whom she boarded
was summoned to the city, and being in
formed of the case was greatly astonish
ed, and professed the deepest sympathy.
He could not believe that either of his
sous could be guilty of the crime; nor did
be think them at all qualified, by their
knowledge of drugs, for its accomplish
ment. It has since been learned that
one of the sons had spent some months
in a drug store, and we concluded our
story of the crime by mentioning that the
child, at its birth, was taken by the far
mer to his home, for adoption.
We come now to a page in the history
of this girl’s experience which the super
stitious and.believers in omens will de
clare to be more interesting and signifi
cant than what has been written.
After the birth of the child the young
mother solemnly raised her hand and
swore that she knew nothing of its con
ception or fatherhood. In spite of these
impressi ve asseverations, more or less sus
picion still clouded the girl’s innocence.
The suspicion was of a nature that in
volved questions of a medical science.
But last Sunday anew witness appeared
in the case. The circumstance of the
testimony is related by an eye witness, a
lady fifty years of age, no relation of the
family, and esteemed as one of the most
respected members of society. Sunday
afternoon, while a number were in the
sick room, a white dove appeared at the
window and beat its bill against the pain
m a vain endeavor to enter. Barred from
admission at this point, the bird disap
peared and immediately sought another
place of entrance, which it found at the
back door of the dwelling. Here it en
tered and made its way directly to the
sick room, when it flew to- the bed,
pearched for a moment on the footboard,
and then made its way to the prostrate
head of the poor patient, where it nestled
in perfect security, and was only removed
by hand. How will the world view this
singular incident? Is it a judgement
from heaven pronounced in favor of the
innocence of the girl ?
The Wonderful Snakes of Kentucky.
While out hunting on la3t Tuesday,
Mr. Richard Ives discovered a large cave
in the side of a hill under a rock, and
while opposite heard the squealing of
pigs inside. He stepped close to the
mouth of the cave to investigate the
matter, and, to his horrow, saw protrud
ing the head of an immense rattlesnake,
with a pig in its mouth. The pig was
about four months old and weighed about
seventy-five pounds. He summoned a
number of his neighbors, with guns and
pitch-forks, who built a large fire in the
mouth of the cave, in order to drive the
snakes out. Iu about an hour they com
menced pouring out over the burning
coals. As they approclied in sight the
parties fired upon them from the top of
the cliff. They continued to pour out
until the surrounding woods for twenty
yards square was literally covered with
dead and live snakes. They killed
310, but many made their escape. The
largest one killed—a male—was ten feet
long, and measured around the body one
and a half feet. The next largest, a
female, was seven feet long and measur
ed one foot around the body. The lar
gest snakes have been preserved in al
cohol, and will be on exhibition at our
Fair, free of charge. The snake refer
red to had 110 rattles. The cave was
literally filled with heads of sheep, pigs,
etc., whic i had been captured from the
surrounding countryl
—Spirituous resurrection. A bottle of
whisky, buried fifty years ago in Ken
tucky, was sold the other day for sl2.
Congress is going to he asked to ap
point a committee of scientists to study
up the insects breeding in the Rocky
Mountains,
THE OGLETHORPE ECHO
ADVERTISEMENTS.
First insertion (per inch *pa<-e)
Each subsequent insertion 7Z
A liberal discount allowed those advertising
for a longer |K*riod than three months, turd
of lowest contract rates can be had on appli
cation to the Proprietor.
Local Notices 15c. j*er line first Insertion,-
and 10c. per line thereafter.
Tributes of Respect, Obituaries, etc;, 50c.
ocr inch. Announcements, $5, iu OlTvanCe!
LEGAL ADEVRT IS EM ENTS.
Do You Wish to Sell
LAND?
IN PURSUANCE OF THE RECOMMEND
DATION of the Grand Jury, the Board of
Commissioners of Roads arid Revenues of
Oglethorpe Codntv desire tti pimlias' n
TRACT OF LAND
situate in suidcouuty, w hereon to establish an
Asylum for the Poor
of said county. A Tract of I .and accessible td
market is desired.
The Board will receive Proposals from alt
who desire to sell until the
Firs! Tuesday in December Next;
The number of Acres, Locality, Price ami
Quality to be given.
Said Proposals to sell will l*e left with the
Clerk ot the Board in iK-qington.
CFO. 11. LESTER, Clerk.
November 4, 1875. ($y.75)
Georgia, ogletiwiipe county.
Court of Ordinary, at Chambers, No
vember 3d, 1875.
Xof Ice.
7b Thomas J, Waller, Executor of 11. 11. ITui
ler, deceased, and to the heir* at lau- of
dr ecu red. :
It appearing to the Court, by the petition of
Willis I loir, (a person of color,) that H. B.
Widly r ,deceased,late of said count v, did, in his
lite time, execute to said \\ illis 1 foff(aperson
ot color,) his Bonds, conditioned to execute
titles in fee simple to said Willis Hoff, (a per
son of color,) to a certain tract or parcel of land
lying in said county iiud buonded as follows :
On the south by T." Amis, east by B. B. Faust,
north and west by lands of said B. 1L Waller,
deceased—containing One Ilundn-d Aon*)
with all tlie rights, members and appurten
ances to said lot of Land, iu any wise npjH-r
--tainingor belonging.
Ami it further ama-uring that said B. 11.
Waller departed this life without executing
titles to said tract or parcel id laud, or by will
or otherwise providing therefor
And it further appearing that said Willis
Hot!, (a person ot color,) has paid the ftill
amount of the purchase price of said tract or
parcel of land—
And said \V illis Hoff, (a person of color.)
having petitioned this Court to direct Thoimis
J. Waller, the executor upon the estate of It.
B. Waller, deceased, to execute to him titles
to said tract or parcel ot Land, in oouformitv
with said Bonds :
Therefore, All persons concerned are here
by notified and required to file their objec
tions, (if any they have in my office within the
time ]M;rscribed by law,) why said Executor*
should not be ordered to execute Titles to said
tract or parcel of Lunds in conforming with
said bonds.
And it is farther ordered That a copy of
this Rule be published in theOm.ETHORi*
Bciio, the otheial gazette of Oglethorpe oouty
for thirty days.
THOMAS I). GILIIAM, Ordinary.
$22.50
’ " 1 i- , —i ,i rf
A<l min isl rut orbs Sale.
WHL 11E SOLD BEFORE THE COURT
House door iu the countv of Oglethorpe,
on the first TUESDAY in December, 1875,
within the legal hours of sale, bv virtue of tux
order from the Court of Ordinary of said
county, the following Real Estate, belonging
to the estate of William T. Daniel. deceased,
Jo-wit: All that tract or parcel of LAND, ly
ing and being in the county of Oglethorpe,
situate in and immediately adjoining to tbe
village of Woodstock, and* known as the plane
whereon Robert C. Daniel resided at the time
of his death. Said tract of Land contains
Three Hundred aud Eighty Acres, more or
less, and is splemlidly improved. A Plot erf
the Land can he seen by calling on Mr. John
J. Daniel, who resides on the place.
Term* of Sale —One-fourth cash, one-fourth
on Ist of January, 1877, one-fourth one the
Ist of January, 1878, und one-fourth Ist Jan
uary, 1871*, with interest at 10 per cent, per
annum on deferred payments. Titles made
when last payment is made.
WM. 11. BRANCH.
Administrator of Win. T. Daniel.
November Ist, 1875. (sl7)
Oglethorpe NlierilPt* Kale.
WILL RESOLD ON THE FIRST TUES
DAY in Decemlwr next, l>efore the
Court House door, in the town of Lexington,
Oglethorpe county, within the legal hours of
sale, oue tract of Land,containing Three Hun
dred and Fifty Acres, more or less, in said
county, adjoining hinds of Joseph 11. McWhor
ter, Mrs. X. Cramer, Mrs. Anna Hunter and
others. Levied on as the projerty of John A.
Jewel, by virtue of a ti fa. issued 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. Jaw
ell. * ($5)
M. 11. YOUNG, Dep’y Sheriff.
November 3,1875. ($5)
Administrator*’ Mule.
BY VIRTUE OF AN ORDER FROM THK
Court of Ordinary of Oglethorpe county,
Georgia, there will I>e sold before the Court
House door, in the town c. Lexington, in said
county, on the FIRST TUESDAY IN DE
CEMBER next, within the legal hours of
sale,Two Hundred and Twenty-seven Acres a £.
Land, more or less, belonging to the estate of
Elizabeth Edwards, deceused, ad joining lands •
of 11. Kinnebrew, W. J). Faust, i,ncv Banka
and others, it being the place whereon said
deceased formerly resided.
Sold for the benefit of the heirs and emllD
ors of said deceased.
Terms cash.
Lexington, Oetols-r 20, 1875.
THOS. J EDWARDS,
WM. 11. EDWARDS,
novs-30d (sl2) Administrators.
O TATE OF GEORGIA, OGLETHORPE
O COUNTY.—Petition for Letters of
Guardianship. WHEREAS, Mrs. B. E. Roane
has applied this day to me, by written peti
tion, for Letters of Guardianship of the person
and property of William H. Deadwyler and
Jimmie E. Deadwyler, minor chifdreu id
James S. Deadwyler, deceased —
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish
all persons interested to Ik- and appear at my
office, on or before the first Monday in De
cember, 1875, to show cause, if any they eon,
why said Letters should not le granted.
Given under my hand and official signature,
at office, this Ist day of November, 1875.
($4) THOMAS 1). GILHAM, Ordinary.
Oglethorpe SheriHUn Kale.
TAT I LI. BE SOLD ON THE FIRST
\Y TUESDAY iu Decemlter n*ext, before
the Court House door, in the town of Lexing
ton, Oglethorpe county, within the legal hours
of sale, the interest of Wm. 11. Hopkins in
the following tracts of LAN D : One tract of
Land containing One Hundred and Fifty
Acres, more or less, lying in Oglethorpe comi
ty, adjoining lands of Joel J. Bacon, G. H,
Lester and others. ($5)
—AI-SO
One other tract of Land, containing Thr*
Hundred and Fifty Acres, the Home Place mt
said Wm. 11. Hopkins, in said county, ad
joining lands of Z. 11. Clark, Willis B. Jack
son an<l others. The interest of said Hop
kins being a life estate in said tract of Land.
Levied on as the property of Wm. 11. Hop
kins, by virtue of three fi. fas. issued from th
Justice Court otArlie 226th District, G. M., in
favor of McWhorter, Young & Cos. vs. W. H.
Hopkins. Levy made and returned to me by
a Constable.
Lexington, Oetnl>er 27, 1875.
($5) M. 11. YOUNG, I)ep7 Skcr'*#j