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MY I'AIAK HAIR.
Whose was the hair I call my own,
On whose fair waves the sun has thrown
Its beams of golden light ?
Was it a maiden, pale and cold,
Torn from the clay and charnel mold
In the depth of a silent night.
Was she a peasant, young and fair,
To whom this wealth of golden hair
Proved clothing wealth and food ?
I know she wept as_a cruel hand
Gathered her treasures strand by strand,
In unrelenting mood.
Was she a matron of stately grace,
Whose dark-brown eyes and tinted face
Preferred an auburn tone ?
Was she a saint, with dove-like eyes,
Who found her path to Paradise
Through convent gate i of stone ?
As the organ breathed its plaintive air,
And the scissors gleamed in her golden hair,
Was full atonement given ?
Did the priestly touch an# the sisters’ cowl
Hush the yearnings of her soul,
Or draw it nearer Heaven?
In fasting, solitude and prayer,
Does she truly think her cross lies there,
Or is she racked with doubt ?
Will she come to me some still, cold night,
And wake ray soul in sad affright,
To pull my hair-pins out T
A Wonderful Gun.
Mr. William B. Winans lias in his pos
session a remarkable gun, and one that
has an unwritten and partly an unknown
history more remarkable than the weapon
itself. As to where it was made, or by
what train of circumstances its dcath
deaiing crack became a sound of terror
along the Tennessee and Cumberland
rivars during the earlier years of the late
war, we shall not pretend to say. Cer
tain it is that many a Federal soldier bit
the dust during the Fort Donalson and
Shiloh campaigns, being laid low by the
buzzing ball which sped from her dread
muzzle, the trigger drawn with steady
finger, infallible sight and deadly aim.
The very sound of the gun became known
and familiar, and an ominous one along
infantry skirmish lines, and among the
sharp-shooters. Near the time of the
battle of Shiloh some infantry had been
imployed in skirmish or reconnoitering
duty in the deep-tangled woods. Crack,
bang, boom roared at intervals the old
gun in the distance, at every discarge
laying a soldier stiff and stark in death,
with unerring accuracy. Shift their po
sitions as they might, the gun would
bang away, and with a hiss and a tliud
there would be one soldier less. The di
rection of the firing was ascertained, and
the entire regiment or party was ordered
to charge towards it without knowing
where or what it was. On they went,
losing a man at every few paces. Noth
ing was accomplished, and the party re
turned, leaving the murderous gun crack
ing away as they retreated. Shortly af
terward the old fire-lock was heard again
with her murderous music. It was re
solved at all hazards to find and capture
the infernal machine. After persistent
efforts, a tall, raw-boned, grizzle-bearded,
large-sized Texas ranger was discovered
in the foliage of a tall tree, from among
the branches of which he was picking off
his foes as well as lie had picked off hun
dreds before. With his iron visage,
piercing eye and unquailing nerve, there
be sat, fierce as the untamed jaguar.
Brought to bay, he continued to load and
shoot with deadly aim till brought down,
and the famous gun was captured. It
afterward fell into the hands of the late
Bone Lucas, and finally friend Winans
became and is now its custodian. It is a
gun of immense caliber, being near eight
feet long, with a smooth bore, single-bar
rel, large enough to admit of a small
sized walnut. It is quite a curiosity, and
an interesting relic of the past, and could
its muzzle talk, it could tell of many
death-shots that had passed its steel
rimmed and blazing lips. —Bowling Green
Pantagraph.
The Religion We Want.
We want a religion that bears heavily
not only on the “ exceeding sinfulness
of sin,” but on the exceeding rascality of
lying and stealing ; a religion that ban
ishes small measures from the counters,
pebbles from the cotton-bags, clay from
the paper, sand from the sugar, chicory
from the coffee, alum from the bread, and
water from the milk cans. The religion
that is to save the world will not put all
the big strawberries at the top aud all the
little ones at the bottom. It will not
make one-half a pair of shoes of good
leather, so that the first shall redound to
the maker’s credit and the second to his
cash. It will not put Jouvin’s stamp on
Jenkins’ kid gloves; nor make Paris bon
nets in the back-room of a Boston milli
ner shop ; nor let a piece of velvet that
professes to measure twelve yards come
to an untimely end at the tenth. It does
not put bricks at five dollars a thousand
into chimneys it contracts to build with
seven-dollar material; nor smuggle white
pine into floors that have paid for hard
pine ; nor leave yawning cracks iu closets
where boards ought to join. The relig
ion that is going to sanctify the world
pays its debts. It does not consider that
forty cents returned from one hundred
cents given is according to the Gospel,
though it may be according to law. It
looks on a man who has failed in trade,
and who continues to live in luxury, as a
thief. —The Christian.
The Chicago Board of Education has
refused, by a vote of 11 to 2, to restore
Bible reading in the schools.
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BY T. L. GANTT.
BRIEXXETS.
Tbc World in a Nat Nhell--Latst News.
—Grant weighs 187 pounds.
—English railroads make 50 miles an
hour.
—The ex-Empress Carlotta is growing
crazier.
—Canary seed are now used as food
for race horses.
. —A Massachusetts tree is one side
birch and the other maple.
—The cotton crop of South Carolina,
this year, is 40,000 bales less than last.
—The Kentucky papers have organi
zed a strong opposition to the use of snuff
by girls.
—There are about 1,000,000,000 people
on the globe, and 800,000,000 of them
use tobacco.
—The Great Eastern is being refur
nished, at an expense of SIOO,OOO, for
Centennial trips.
—A St. Louis woman has dyed her dog
for the purpose of expressing grief at the
death of her husband.
—Rattlesnakes are reported to be
more abundant in South Carolina this
year than for a century.
—A wild turkey was killed last week
in Kentucky that weighed 32 pounds and
boasted a heard 9 inches in length.
—The monster who inhumanly mur
dered his twin children near Poland,
Ala., was hung by a mob last week.
—Bessie Turnei has published a week
ly newspaper story entitled “ Circum
stantial Evidence; or, The Verdict of
Society.”
—A Terre Haute dog says Grace. At
least he strikes a reverent attitude, and
that is about all grace before meat
amounts to.
Since the year 1800 England has waged
49 wars; France 58; Russia 22; Aus
tria 12 ; Prussia 8, and they appear anx
ious for another.
—ln South Carolina, the census stands
as follows: Whites—males, 170,864;
females, 179,857. Negroes—males, 378,-
274; females, 284,452.
—An Indiana court has decided that a
girl may, if she wishes, simultaneously
sue fifty young men for breach of prom
ise. This opens anew field.
—A Tyrolese Jesuit priest has taken
out a patent in Vienna for an electro
motor which is available for driving pur
poses. Step aside, Mr. Keely.
—General Meredith, who died lately
in Indiana, was 6 feet 7 inches high, and
Lincoln used to say that the General
was one of the few men he looked up to.
—A notorious scoundrel named Rollin
Iv. Kirk, of South Carolina, is supposed
to be the author of the sensational letter
to General Gordon, alluded to by us last
week. *
—lt is said that the showman Barnum
has purchased the bones of Guibord from
the Institute Canadian for SIOO,OOO, with
the design of exhibiting them to the cu
rious public.
—A California man has purchased 100
African ostriches. It is his intention to
raise them exclusively for their plumage,
each bird yielding S2OO worth of feath
ers yearly.
—Female trade “drummers” have
made their appearance in the West.
They are piquant, audacious and fascina
ting, and hundreds of business men are
having “business” that detains them at
their store until an unusually late hour
at night.
—A New York man lias cured himself
of the filthy habit of tobacco chewing by
tasting an apple every time he felt incli
ned to partake of the degrading weed.
He had been perfuming and frescoing
stoves for seventeen years, but the fruit
worked an effectual cure.
—A Chicago conductor was fined
SI,OOO for kissing a lady passenger,
while a Louisiana brakeman bad to pay
only $250 for the same offence. Will
some good arithmetician please inform
what it would cost the President of the
road to indulge in that luxury ?
—An Elkliorn (Wis.) teacher forbade
the girls to arrange their hair in recess
time. Miss Johnson, aged 16, disobedi
ently combed her back hair, and was
whipped with a stick. She still declared
herself rebellious, and the teacher (a
young man) knocked her down with his
fist. Later in the day her brother,
father and sweetheart alternately thrash
ed the teacher.
—A wild man, covered with hair about
an inch long, was recently killed in a
tree on the Cumberland Mountains. He
was driven up a tree by some dogs, and
Mr. Harper, a hunter, shot and killed
him before discovering it to be a human
being, he laboring under the impression
that it was a bear. He is so grieved at
the circumstance that he has thrown
aside his gun and swares never to hunt
again.
—John Jones, an Alabama negro pol
itician, has been sentenced to ten years
in the State prison for trying to wreck a
passenger train on the M. &G.R. R.
It seems that Jones and a negro preach
er, believing that a number of Demo
crats were on the train, piled cross
ties on the rails and calmly waited in the
woods to witness and exult over the loss
of life. Happily, the engineer saw the
obstruction and saved the passenger
coaches, although the engine was thrown
off the track. The preacher escaped.
CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 26, 1875.
DEVILTRIES.
The Raciest, Latest and Best Witiclsms.
—“ Belles” call a great many people
to church.
—What’s in a name? D.Seaverdrives
a St. Louis milk wagon.
—Allen Hanner has just married Han
ner Allen in Blade county, Virginia.
—A fac simile of the high C’s in mu
sic is reached by treading gently on a
cat’s tail.
—Florida papers report an almost to
tal failure of the sponge crop. Take a
portion of ours.
—The most successful way for a hoy
to learn a bee sees —by just putting his
finger into the hive.
—lf a man wants to know what it is
to be disappointed, let him try to put out
a red-headed woman with a Babcock ex
tinguisher.
—The fall crop of babies is female.
Gov. Smith will have to call the Legisla
ture iu extra session to suppress this
“ crying” evil.
—We have long since forgiven the
North for licking us, hut the North has
never quite forgiven us for being so in
fernal hard to lick.
—An exchange says that the last thing
in advanced styles is the “ pull-back”
nightgowns. If the writer means that
it is the latest worn, he is right.
—A New Jersey female institute con
tains thirty-four red-headed girls, and
the principal dispenses with gas and all
other kind of artificial light.
—A Marietta brick-mason dreampt his
wife was a broken brick, and uncon
sciously hurled her from bed on to the
floor, and then yell for “ more morter.”
—“ The prisoner at the bar seems to
have a very smooth face,” said a specta
tor to a jailor. “ Yes,” replied the jailor,
“ he was ironed just before he was brought
in.”
—“ What is that dog harking at,”
asked a fop, whose hoots were more pol
ished than his ideas. “ Why,” said a
bystander, “ he sees another puppy in
your hoots.”
—Noisy little boys in Cincinnati are told
that right in the center of the hind hoofs
of every live mule there is a lump of
gold, which can he easily dug out with
a penknife.
—A mischievous editor remarks that
the suggestion that ladies dresses be
made of the newly discovered, unbreak
able and elastic glass, prompts the hope
that it isn’t the transparent kind.
—A dish-wasliing machine is the la
test invention. They will continue to
invent washers, wringers, ironers, sewers
and one thing and another till women
will not be worth fifteen cents a dozen.
—Some people won’t let well enough
alone. Take, for instance, the Jersey
City man who, having been sentenced to
a fine of $5 and costs, applied for a re
consideration of the case, and got three
months in the Penitentiary.
—A Massachusetts Methodist society
recently gave]some Scriptural tableaux,
illustrating the history of Joseph and
his brethren, wherein Jacob and his fam
ily went down into Egypt to the air of
“Marching Through Georgia.”
—A three-year-old hoy asked his moth
er to let him have his building bricks to
play with ; but she told her darling that
it was Sunday, and therefore not proper
for him Jo have them. “But, mamma,
I’ll build achureh.” He got the bricks.
—John Smith was horn, baptized, ar
rested, shot, buried, married and senten
ced to the penitentiary for life all in one
week, recently, in Omaha. This did not
preveat his having his tooth’ pulled, and
stopping his paper on the following Mon
day either.
—A minister who was greatly troubled
to get his quarterly instalments of a very
small salary, at last said to one of the
deacons, “ I must have my money, for
my family are suffering for it.” “Mon
ey !” said the deacon, “ I thought you
preached for souls!” “ Souls !” said the
minister, “ we can’t live on souls, and if
we could, it would take a thousand such
souls as yours to make a meal!”
—“ You see, grandmama, we perforate
an aperture iu the apex, and a corre
sponding aperture in the base, and by
applying the egg to the lips and forcibly
inhaling the breath, the egg is entirely
discharged of its contents.” “ Bless my
soul,” cried the old lady, “ what wonder
ful improvements they do make ! Now,
in my younger days, we just made a hole
in both ends and sucked.”
—A shop-keeper purchased of an Irish
woman a quantity of butter, the lumps
of which intended for pounds, he weighed
in the balance and found wanting.
“ Shure it’s your own fault if they are
light,” said Biddy, in * reply to the com
plaints of the buyer; “ it’s your own
fault, sir; for wasn’t it with a pound of
your own soap I bought here myself that
I weighed them ?” The shop-keeper had
nothing more to say on that subject.
—A meek-looking stranger was setting
on the station platform reading a news
paper, last evening, when he suddenly
let it fall from his hands, and burst into
tears. “ What is your grief, my dear sir ?”
hastily asked an astonished and sympa
thetic bystander. The afflicted man
looked up with eyes streaming. “ Stran
ger,” he gasped, “ do you know that there
hain’t a single ex-President alive ?” and
again he bowed his head and wept.
CANNIBALISM.
Robbing the Grave Yards for Food--A
Prisoner Made to Devour His Own
Flesh--A Steak from a Corpse.
From a lengthy article on the various
uses to which the human body has been
put, we clip the following horrible, yet
historical facts:
The strangest, and by far the most hor
rible use, however, to which the hones of
dead have been put, is that of human
food. The most famous instance of this
ghoulish cannibalism on record is afford
ed, we believe, in the history of the sixth
siege of Paris, subsequent to the assassin
ation of Henry 111 by a monk in the very
camp of the besiegers. The struggle was
characterized by all the determined fan
aticism and ferocity of a religious war ;
the siege was protracted to a duration of
nearly five years, and thousands upon
thousands of the inhabitants of Paris
perished of famine. Henry of Navarre
finally cut off the unfortunate city’s pro
visions by a thorough circuinvallation ;
hut the fanaticism of a Catholic League
protracted the siege until long after resis
tance had become hopeless. The bark
of trees, grass, the skins of animals, rats
and even the leather of old shoes, were
devoured by the starving hesiged with
avidity, and sold at prodigious prices.
All the horrors of the last days of Jeru
salem were re-enacted. As in the days
of Titus, mothers fed upon the flesh of
their children ; the dead bodies lying in
the streets were riven asunder and de
voured by crowds of starving men, ren
dered hyenas by insaue hunger; aud
wolves wandered in the public streets of
the city. Then the Spanish Embassador
of the League advised that the bones of
the dead should be disinterred from the
public cemeteries, ground into a hone
flour (not very dissimilar to the fertilizer
now manufactured at Si Keck’s stink-fac
tory,) and made into bread. The tombs
gave up their dead, and the resting
places of the dead were violated, and the
slimy worms robbed of their food. The
frightful bread was made, distributed,
and eagerly devoured ; but all who ate of
it became afflicted with strange and hide
ous disorders which no man] had ever
before heard of, and which no physician
could heal.
This uso of human bones as a diet
recalls a student who cooked and ate a
steak from a body in his dissection room,
and was thereafter banished the Univer
sity. Compulsory cannibalism was some
times favored by the medieval torturers.
When George Dozsa, leader of the revolt
of the Hungarian peasants against the
Magyar nobles, in the latter part of the
fifteenth century, was defeated and cap
tured, lie was sentenced to have the flesh
torn from his bones with red-hot pincers ;
and a number of his followers, who had
been purposely kept without food for
several days, were compelled to eat it.
There are still more horrible incidents in
history of compulsory cannibalism—such
as the forcing a prisoner by torture to
devour a part ofliis own flesh.
A Petrified Forest in tfceiDesert.
From David Rideout, who has been en
gaged in preparing a section of a petri
fied tree for the Centennial Exhibition,
we learn the following relative to the pet
rified forest in the desert of Northwes
tern Homboldt. On the plain, about
thirty miles west of the Black Rock range
of mountains, stands one of the greatest
natural curiosities ever discovered in Ne
vada. It is a petrified forest, in which
the stumps of many of trees, now
changed into solid rock, are still stand
ing. There are no living trees or vege
tation'of any kind other than stunted
sage-brush in the vicinity. Some of
these ancient giants of a forest, which
flourished perhaps thousands ef years
ago, when the climate of Nevada was un
doubtedly more favorable for the growth
of luxurant vegetation than at present,
rival in size the big trees of California.
Stumps, transformed into solid rock,
stand in an upright position, with their
roots imbedded in the soil, as when grow
ing, that measure from fifteen to twenty
six feet in circumference, and the ground
in the vicinity is strewn with the trunks
and limbs which retain their natural
shape and size. Mr. Rideout, determin
ed to secure a section of one of these trees
for the Centennial Exhibition, with two
other men, spent twelve days in cutting
it from the stump. This was accomplish
ed by drilling all around the tree and
separating it with wedges. The specimen
is three feet high, and eighteen feet in
circumference, and its estimated weight
is three tons. It stands on the stump from
which it was severed, ready to be loaded
on a wagon. Mr. Rideout does not feel
able to incur the expense of bringing it
by team to the railroad, though he had
once made arrangements to do so, but the
other party to the agreement failed to
perform his part. He is anxious to call
the attention of theCentennialComission
ers to the matter, and see if they will
not furnish the means to get it to the rail
road. Tne country in which it is situated
is an inviting field for geologists.
A gentleman happened in a certain
store recently, and observing a large pile
of almanacs on the counter, took up one
and remarked, “Are these gratuitous?”
“ No,” innocently replied Tom Witcher,
“ they are almanacs. Take one home
with you.”
“ PSYCHO.”
An Automaton that Beckon* Fitfiire*.
Flays Whist, and Puzzle* London.
The curious automatic “ Pysclio,” which
has attracted so much attention in Lon
don, still remains a mystery. An Amer
ican gentleman named Coffin claimed to
have discovered the secret, and suggested
that the figure was worked by an air blast
through the hollow glass pedestal. This
is now disproved by the exhibitors, who
close the aperture in the pedestal, and
satisfactorily show that the figure is not
controlled by pneumatic agencies.
The Scientific American makes an ex
tract from a letter written by Mr. J. A.
Clarke, one of the inventors of Psycho,
to a gentleman in Boston. Mr. Clark’s
account of the automaton is - in substauce
as follows:
Several years ago Mr. Clarke conceiv
ed the idea which has been embodied in
Psycho, and made a rough model of the
invention. He then made the acquaint
ance of Mr. J. N. Maskelyn, a mechani
cian of extraoroinary ability, and Psycho
is the fruit of their joint endeavors.
In design the automaton is an isolated
figure, said to be perfectly removed from
any possible connection with anybody or
anything outside, with no communica
tion (mechanical, magnetic, electrical,
pneumatic, hydraulic or otherwise,) con
ceivable from the stage, hack, sides, roof,
or elsewhere, yet controlled by the influ
ence of its proprietors, so that the figure
moves when aud in whatever manner de
sired. It is M;czel’s chess player over
again, but without the chances for decep
tion which that piece’of mechanism al
lowed.
The figure calculates numbers and
plays whist, hut it is adapted for many
other feats, and it works precisely as if
there was a person inside, and yet there
is the mechanism. The
audacious' part of the invention is that
any person is allowed to see or feel all
the inside (of the figure, so as to satisfy
all senses that there are no spaces con
cealed by optical arrangement or other
wise. It is placed upon a hollow glass
cylinder in height, or upon the
carpet, or upon a loose wooden stand,
with legs to keep]jthe automaton from
the floor.
The audience are at liberty to go upon
the stage and handle and examine all
the parts as much as they please and any
body may remain close to it while it is in
operation, and see and feel that no wires
or threads, or any other thing, connect
any part of the apparatus with the out
side.
As at present exhibited, the perform
ance is as follows : The audience names
two numbers, Pyscho multiplies them to
gether and shows the answer (one figure
at a time) by opening a little door in a
small box and sliding the figure in front
by a movement of his left hand. The au
dience gives it a sum in division, and it
shows the answer in the same manner.
Then three men go on the stage, inspect
Pyscho and the apparatus, and sitting at
a side table, play a game of whist. The
thirteen cards for Pyscho are placed, up
right and singly, in a quadrant rack over
the range of the figure’s right hand. The
arm has a radical motion horizontally to
find any card wanted, and Pyscho lifts
the card and holds it up in view of the
andience. Tne figure then covers the
card to be played. Psycho shakes hands
with the players, and answers questions
by ringing a bell. It also takes part in
some usual card tricks.
An Ab:ur£ Proposal.
An absurd and foolish story star
ted about a year ago, to the effect that
Director General Goshorn had made a
request for the remains of Washington
for exhibition at the Centennial was re
ceived with mingle disgust and indigna
tion, and the report was afterwards de
clared to be unfounded. Some two-leg
ged jackall revives the unpleasant sub
ject in the Philadelphia Press, and sober
ly suggests that the remains of both
Washington and Lincoln be brought to
the Centennial, and that a fee should be
charged for viewing them, the proceeds
to be devoted to completing the Wash
ington Monument. “ What a great
pleasure and satisfaction it would be to
every one to behold the real, genuine,
honest face of the immortal Washington !
exclaims this correspondent. General
Goshorn ought to secure this fellow for
the big show, and label him as the great
est fool in America.
A Female Lawyer.
The Des Moines Register has the fol
lowing brief sketch of Mrs. Emma Had
dock, of lowa City, who, on Friday last,
was admitted to practice in the United
States Circuit and District Courts in
Iowa: Mrs. Haddock is the wife of
Judge Haddock, of lowa City. She
graduated in the Law Department of the
State University this year with high
honor. While in this department she
gained many friends by her modest de
meanor, and the students had only words
of praise for her. She was a bard and
successful student, and a lady of culture
in other branches than the law. She is
highly esteemed in the community in
which she lives, and all admire her for
her talent and sterling good sense. This
is a worthy honor worthily bestowed, and
the honor of being the first female in the
United States admitted to practice in
, these courts could fall on no more worthy
one of her sex,
VOL. II—NO. 8.
HUMOR.
On A Bridal Tonr with Ills .Vfother-in-
I.aw-A K'onttd Ora am.
[Selected by a Lexington Lawyer.]
Iliere was three ot then). One was a
bride, the other was a groom with red
ears and maiden whiskers, and the third
was the bride s mother. Thev were at
the Grand I rank Depot yesterday morn
ing to take the train west. The young
man clasped his young wife’s fat hand,
rolled up his eyes, and they seemed hap
py, while the mother-in-law paraded up
and down the sitting-room with lordly
air and seemed well satisfied. Pretty
soon the groom went out, and when he
returned he threw fire pop-corn balls and
a big bar of peanut-candy into the bride’s
lap and handed the old lady another.
She turned up her nose, raised her spec
tacles, and thus addressed the young man
with red ears :
“ See here, Peter White, you are mar
ried to Sabiutha, ain’t you ?”
“ Why, of course.”
“ And I have a right to.feel an inter
est in you ?”
“ Of course.”
“ And we are now on our bridal tower
ain’t we?”
“ Yes.”
AV ell, now, you’ve_been squandering
money all along, Peter. You took a heck,
you bought oysters, you bought a jack-'
knife, and you ve thrown money away. T
feel .that it is myjduty to tell yea to hold
up before you make a fool of yourself!”
“Whose money is this?” he asked
growing very red in the face.
“ It is yours,"and what is yourj is Sa
bintha s, aud it is my duty as her mother
to speak out when I see you fooliug your
money away.”
“ I guess I can take care of my mon
ey !” he retorted.
“Perhaps you can, Peter White, but
there are those iu your family who can’t.”
“ he struggled with his feelings as the
bride shook her head at him, and then
asked :
“ Did I marry you ?”
“ No, sir, you didn’t, you little bow
legged apology for a man ; but I have
a right to speak for my daughter.”
“ You can speak ali you wan’t to ; but
I want you to understand that I can*man
ago my own affairs, and that I don’t care
for your advice.”
“ Peter White,” she slowly responded,
waving the peanut-candv close to his
nose, “ I see we’ve got to’ have a fuss,
and we might as well have it now.”
“ Ma! ma !” whispered the bride, pull
ing at the old lady’s shawl.
“ You needn’t ma me.Sabintha ! This
Peter White has deceived us both about
his temper, and I’m going to tell him
just what I think of him ! He commen
ced this fuss, and we’ll see who’ll end
it I”
“ You mind your business, and I’ll at
tend to mine!”
“ Oh ! you hump-backf and hypocrite !”
she hissed, jabbing at bis eye with tlie
peanut-bar. “ Only a month ago you
called me ‘ Mother Hull,’and was going
to give me the best room in the new
house !”
“ You’ll never have a room in a house
of mine !” he exclaimed.
“ And I don’t want one, you red-eared
hypocrite !”
“ Don’t Peter—don’t ma !” sobbed tlie
bride.
“ It's my duty, Sabintlia; its your
mother’s !’,
“ Don’t cry, Sabby,” be interrupted ;
“ don’t mind what she says !”
“ Try to set my daughter up agin me,
will you?” hissed the old lady, as she
brought the peanut-bar down on bis
nose.
“ Oh! ma !” yelled the bride.
“ You old wretch !” hissed Peter, a3he
clawed at her.
“ None of the Whites will ever run
over me !” exclaimed the mother-in-law,
as she got hold of his shirt-collar and
hauled him around.
“ I’ll knock your old—!”
“ You can’t knock nothing I” she in
terrupted, backing him against the table.
“Ma ! Oh-h-h ! ma” howled Sabintlia.
The dozen other passengers in the
room, who had been interested and amus
ed listeners, here interrupted, and Peter
wa3 released from the old lady’s grasp,
his collar having been torn off and his
cheek scratched.
“ I expected this, and prepared for it!”
panted the mother-in-law as she leaned
against the wall. “ This doesn’t end it
by no means! This bridal tower will
come to a stop to-morrow, and then we’ll
see whether I’ve got any business to
speak up for Sabintba or not!”
As the train moved away the old lady
wore a grim smile, Sabintha was weeping
and Peter was struggling with another
paper collar.
It takes a woman to repulse a traveling
agent sometime*. In a neighboring vil
lage, the other day, a man called on Mr.
C. at his place of business and wanted to
sell him a parlor organ. Mr. C., not wish
ing to buy, to get rid of him referred him
to his wife. On the man making his busi
ness known to the lady she asked him if
Mr. C. had sent him to her.
“ Yes, ma’am,” he replied.
“ Well, sir,” said Mrs. C., “you just go
back and tell him that until he can fur
nish me with something besides mackerel
to eat I can make all the music that is
necessary around this house.”
The agent concluded he couldn’t sell
an organ there.
THE OGLETHORPE ECHO
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LEGAL APEVRTISEMENTS.
Do You Wish to Sell
LAID?
IN PURSUANCE OF THE RECOMMEN
DATION of the Grand Jury, the Board of
Commissioners of Roads and* Revenues of
Oglethorpe County desire to purchase a
TRACT OF LAND
situate in said county, whereon to establish an
Asylum for the Poor
of said county. A Tract of Lind accessible to
market is desired.
The Hoard will receive Prejx>sals from all
who desire to sell until the
First Tuesday in December Next.
The number of Acres, Locality, Price and
Quality to he given.
Said Proposals to sell will be left with the
Clerk of the Board in Leqington.
GEO. 11. LESTER, Clerk.
November 4,1875. ($3.75)
/A EOF.GIA, OGLETHORPE COUNTY.
vT Court of Ordinary, at Chambers, No
vember 3d, 1875.
Xotice.
To Thomas J. Walter, Executor of B. B. ?rJ
ler, deceased, and lo the heirs at lav of sxd
deceased :
It appearing to the Court, by the petition of
Willis Hop, a person of color,) that B. B.
Waller,deceased,late of said county, did, in his
life time, execute to said Willis lloff(aperson
of color,) his Bonds, conditioned to execute
titles in fee simple to said Willis lloff. (a per
son of color, ) to a certain tract or parcel of laud
lying in said county and bounded as follows :
On the south by T. Amis, east by B. B. Faust,
north and west by lands of said B. B. Waller,
deceased—containing One Hundred Acres,
with all the rights, members and appurten
ances to said lot of Kami, in any wise apper
taining or belonging.
And it further appearing that said B. B.
Waller departed this life without executing
titles to said tract or parcel of laud, or by will
or otherwise providing therefor
And it further appearing tluit said Willis
Hoff, (a person of color,) has paid the full
amount of the purchase price of said tract or
parcel of land—
And said Willis Hoff, (a person of color,)
having petitioned this Court to direct Thomas
J. Waller, the executor upon the estate of B.
B. Waller, deceased, to execute to him titles
to said tract or parcel of Land, iu conformity
with said Bonds:
Therefore, Al! persons concerned are here
by notified and required to file their objec
tions, (if any they have in my office within the
time perseribed by law,) why said Executor
should not be ordered to execute Titles to said
tractor parcel of Lauds in conforming with
said bends.
Audit is further ordered That a copy of
this Rule be published in theOtiLETHoup
Ec ho, the official gazette of OgMhorpe coaly
lor thirty days.
THOMAS D. GILHAAI, Ordinary.
$22.50
Adminitttriiior'ii Sale.
WILL BE SOLD BEFORE THE COURT
\ Y House door in the county of Oglethorpe,
on the first TUESDAY in December, 1875,
within the legal hours of sale, by virtue of an
order from the Court of >riinary of said
county, the following Real Estate, belonging
to the estate of William T. Daniel, deceased,
to-wit: All that tract or parcel of LAND, ly
ing and being in the county of Oglethorpe,
situate in and immediately adjoining to tii
village ol Woodstock, and’ known as the plaue
whereon Robert C. Daniel resided at the time
of his death. Said tract of Land contains
Three Hundred and Eighty Acres, more or
less, and is splendidly improved. A Plat of
the Land can be seen by calling on Mr. John
J. Daniel, who re sides on the place.
Terms of Sile —One-fourth cash, or.e-fourth
on Ist of January, 1877, one-fourth one the
Ist of January, 1878, and one-fourth Ist Jan
uary, 187'J, with interest at 10 per cent, per
annum on deferred payments. Titles made
when last payment is mad.;.
WM, 11. BRANCH,
Administrator ofWm. T. DanieL
November Ist, 1875. (sl7)
Oglellterpe Uheriff’s Kale.
\X7TLL BE SOLD ON TUB FIRST TUES-
Y Y DAY iu Decemltcr next, before the
Court House door, in the town of Lexington,
Oglethorpe county, within the legal hours of
sale, one tract of Laud, containing Three Hun
dred and Fifty Acres, more or less, in said
county, adjoining la ads of Joseph JI. McWhor
ter, Mrs. N. Cramer, Mrs. Anna Hunter and
others. Levied on as the property of John A.
Jewel, by virtue of a fi fa. issued from the
Court of Ordinary of said county, in favor of
Anna Mere, now Anna limng, vs. John A.
Jewell, guardian. Said tract of land in pos
session of John A. Jewel], aud hare given the
notice required by law to said John A. Jew
ell. ($5)
M. 11. YOUNG, Dep’y Sheriff.
November 3, 1875. ($5)
Administrators’ Sale.
By virtue of an order from the
Court of Ordinary of Oglethorpe county,
Georgia, there will he sold before the Court
House door, in the town c. Lexington, in said
countv, on the FIRST TUESDAY IN DE
CEMBER next, within the legal hours of
sale,Two Hundred and Twenty-seven Acres at
Laud, more or less, belonging to the estate of
Elizabeth Edwards, denea-ed, adjoining lands
of If. Kinnebrew, W. J>. Faust, Lacy
and others, it being the place whereon said
deceased formerly resided.
Sold for the benefit of the hehs and credit
ors of said deceased.
Terms cash.
Lexington, October 29, 1875.
TH. J EDWARDS,
WM. H. EDWARDS,
novo-30d (slZj Administrators.
STATE OF GEORGIA, OGLETHORPE
COUNTY. —Petition for Letters of
Guardianship. WHEREAS, Mrs. P.. E. Roane
has applied this day to me, by written peti
tion, for Letters of Guardianship of the person
and property of William H. Deadwvler and
Jimmie E. Dead wyler, minor children of
James S. Deadwyler, deceased—
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish
all persons interest and to be and appear at my
office, on cr before the first Monday in De
eemlier, 1875, to show cause, if any they can,
why said Letters should not be granted.
Given under my baud and official eigcatGK,
at office, this Ist rlav of November, 1875.
($4) THOMAS i). GJLIIAM, Ordinary.
Oglethorpe Sheriff’s Sale.
ATT ILL BE SOLD ON THE FIRST
1 TUESDAY in Deeeml*er next, before
the Court House door, in the town of Lexing
ton, Oglethorpe county, within the legal hour*
of sale, the interest of Wm. 11. Hopkins in
the following tracts of LAND : One tract of
containing One Hundred and Fifty
Acres, more or less, lying in Oglethorpe coun
ty, adjoining lands of Joel J. Bacon, G. H.
Lester and ethers. (SS)
—AI-SO
One other tract of Land, containing Three
Hundred and Fifty Acres, the Home Place *f
said Win. 11. Hopkins, in said county, ad
joining lands of Z. 11. Clark, Willis B. Jack
son and others. The interest of said Hop
kins being a life estate in said tract of Land.
Levied 'in as the property of Wm. H. Hop
kins, by virtue of three fi. fas. issued from tbs
Justice Court of the 22*-:h District, G. M., in
favor of McWhorter, Young k Cos. vs. W. H.
Hopkins. Levy made and returned to me by
a < ’unstable.
Lexington, October 27. 1875.
(•>”>) M. H. YOI'NG, Dep’y Sheriff.