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THE BLACKNMITH'H HTORV.
nol mv wife ain’t dead, sir, but I’ve
lost her ail the same;
She left me voluntarily, and neither was to
blame.
It’s rather a queer story, and I think you will
agree—
When you hear the circumstances —’twas
rather rough on me.
She was a soldier’s widow. lie was killed at
Malvern Hill;
And when I married her she sc-emed to sor
row for him still;
But I brought her here to Kansas, and I nev
er want to see
A better wife than Mary was for five long
years to me!
The change of scene brought cheerfulness, and
soon a rosy glow
Of happiness warmed Mary’s check and mel
ted all their snow.
I think she loved me some—l’m bound to
think that of her, sir,
And as for me, I can’t begin to tell how dear
ly I loved her.
Three years ago the baby came, our humble
home to bless;
And then I reckon I was nigh to perfect hap
piness.
’Twas hcr’s—’twas mine. But I have no lan
guage to explain to you
How that little girl’s weak fingers our hearts
together drew!
Once, we watched it through a fever, and
with each gasping breath,
Dumb with an awful wordless woe, we waited
for its death ;
And, though I’m not a pious man, our souls
together there,
For Heaven to spare our darling, went up in
voiceless prayer.
And when the doctor said ’twould live, our
joy, what words could tell!
Clasped in each other’s arms, our grateful
tears together fell.
Sometimes, you see, the shadow fell across
our little nest,
But it only made the sunshine seem a doubly
welcome guest.
Work came to me a plenty, and I kept the
anvil ringing,
Early and late you’d find me there a ham
mering and singing.
Love nerved my arm to labor and moved my
tongue to song,
And tlinugii my singing wasn’t sweet, it was
almighty strong.
One day a one armed stranger stopped to have
me nail a shoe,
And, while I was at work, we passed a com
plimentor two.
1 n<b'd him how ho lost his arm. He said
u; s shot away
nv tii ILii “At Malvern Hill! Did
y■ .i ..now Lonort May ?”
V'o t’ me!” said he. “You! you! I gasp
's, eh; k n** w’tli horrid doubt,
eon just follow me; we’ll try
*>■ .n ■ i, y ■ lit
: i *d him to Mary. God !
n. of misery, unspeaka-
Froze.i Wnii deadly horror, she stared with
eyes of stone,
And, from her quivering lips, there rose one
wild, despairing moan—
’Twas he! The husband of her youth now ris
er. from the dead,
But all too late—arid with the bitter cry her
senses fled.
What could be done ? He was reported dead.
On his return
He strove, in vain, some tidings of his absent
wife to learn—
’Twas well that he was innocent! Else I'd
’ve killed him, too,
So dead, he never would hev riz till Gabriel’s
trumpet blew !
It was agreed that Mary, between us should
decide,
And each, by her decision, would sacredly
abide —
No sinner at the judgment seat, waiting eter
nal doom,
Could suffer what I did while waiting sen
tence in this room. *
Rigid and breathless, there we stood, with
nerves as tense as steel,
While Mary’s eyes sought each white face, in
piteous appeal.
God! Could not woman’s duty be less hardly
reconciled
Between her lawful husband and the falher
of her child ?
Ah, how my heart was chilled to ice when she
knelt down and said:
“Forgive me, John! He is my husband!
Here! Alive! not dead !”
I raised her tenderly, and tried to tell her
she was right,
But some how in my aching breast the pris
oned words stuck tight!
“ But, John, I can’t leave baby—” “ What!
Wife and child!” cried I;
“ Must I yield all ? Ah, cruel! Better that
should die.
Think of the long and lonely hours, waiting
in gloom for me —
No wife to cheer me with her love—no babe
to climb my knee!
“ And, yet—you are her mother, and the sa
cred mother-love
Is still the purest, tenderest tie that Heaven
ever wove.
Take her, but promise, Alary, for that will
bring no shame —
My little girl shall bear, and learn to lisp her
father’s name!”
It may be, in the life to come, I’ll meet my
child and wife,
But yonder, by our cottage gate, we parted for
this life;
One long hand-clasp from Mary, and my
dream of love was done !
One long embrace for baby, and my happi
ness was gone!
Be Manly.
N ever try to keep out of a man’s wav
when you are owing him anything, unless
it is a tharshing. It is bad enough in all
conscience to be in debt, but do not make
your condition worse by growing meaner
under its pressure. When you abso
lutely cannot pay up at the appointed
time, don't make him think you are sick.
Don’t skunk about in any way street to
avoid meeting your creditor; don’t sneak
around the tirst corner when you catch
sight of him before he has seen you. All
sueh conduct is unmanly. No doubt you
are adverse to standing face to face with
a man to whom you are a debtor, pay
day past and you are a debtor still —it is
mortifying, very, but it is only one of
the natural consequences of borrowing,
and as you have incurred the penalty,
why meet it like a man. Face your cred
itor, iet him know that you neither for
get the debt or underrate his patience
with you. Say frankly that you are
very sorry to keep him out of his money
and that you will pay him up as fast and
as soon as you can.
—Ladies, you may friz your hair, do
it up high, let it down low, have it hang
ing on your backs, “ scrambled” over
foreheads, “ banged” into your eyes,
puffed up at the sides, worn waterfall
stvle, tied up in a doughnut, or any
other way you may please and it will be
all right—for Fashion says so.
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BY T. L. GANTT.
BRIEFLETS.
The World In n Not Shell—l., a lest Xews.
—A Pennsylvania cat is 21 years old.
—There are 5,000,000 Jews on the face
of the globe.
—A Louisville child was born with
teeth last week.
—A Kentucky woman, 8 feet 3 inches
tall, married the other day.
—A single bolt of lightning in Dakota
killed 14 horses and 5 steers.
—A Baptist minister committed suicide
in Edgefield, S. C., the other day.
—John Short, of Cairo, is ahead of
Job. lie has had 720 boils this year.
—Two hundred dollars were paid for
American Girl’s (the dead racer) shoes.
—President Grant’s friends are one by
one are going to the penitentiary. It is
very sad.
—Corn sold at sheriff's sale, near
Knoxville, Tenn., last week, at 19 cents
per bushel.
—A Paris woman’s hair is 7b feet in
length. She is 52 years old, but her hair
still continues to grow.
—The late Wra. B. Astor paid taxes
on nearly a hundred millions dollars
worth of real estate.
—A Michigan boy, five years old, is
now disputing the title of champion lost
boy with Charley Ross.
—To extinguish kerosene flames, fling
a cloth over them, or, if the flour barrel
is handier, throw on flour.
—A Nova Scotia woman is 130 years
old, and does now as much work as many
women a century younger.
—ln 177(5 there were only 25,000 or
30,000 Baptist communicants. They
now number about 2,000,000.
—The last words of Vice-President
Wilson were : “ I guess I will take some
more of that bitter water.”
—S. 11. Colbath, a brother of the late
Vice-President, is employed in the Cap
itol at Washington, as messenger.
—Pleasing item of news from Homer
villc, I'a.: “On Friday last, the corn
grown on the cemetery lot was sold.”
—During the last three months 1,450
horses, 07 donkeys and 5 mules were
killed in Paris for public consumption.
—An African prince offered Du Chail
lu his choice of a wife among 850 girls.
To prevent jealousy, he took them all.
—When the heir of the Brazilian
throne was recently born, the attending
physician received over $20,000 in gold.
—A well in Texas yields a water that
tastes very much like lemonade. It is
said to be a sovereign remedy for many
diseases.
—An old lady living in Caroline coun
ty, Md., is 114 years old, and was present
at the signing of the Declaration of In
dependence.
—London has the champion boy fiend.
He deliberately piled sticks around a
a little child while she was asleep and
burned her to death.
—A Maine woman, in her 90tli year,
planted the seed of an apple that she
was eating, and lived to enjoy the fruit
for a number of years.
—An Ohio girl, 12 years old, having
been whipped by her mother for making
the baby cry, was so incensed that she
went to the river and drowned herself.
—Many well informed cotton men es
timate the present crop of that staple at
four and a half millions of bales, of 450
pounds each—the largest since the war.
—A Kiowa Indian recently created a
sensation in Clay county, Texas, by of
fering to trade even with Mr. Stratton
his old pony for the farmer’s daughter.
—A Jackson (Miss.) paper says the
Senate stands 25 Democrats, 11 Radicals
and 1 Independent. The House stands
95 Democrats, 18 Radicals and Indepen
dent Radicals, and 2 fusion Radicals.
—Another disgraceful suttee, or the
burning of a widow with her dead hus
band, has taken place recently in India.
The British Government has arrested
about thirty persons for murder or com
plicity therewith.
—A woman in Virginia City, Nevada,
who had been bedridden for months, had
to be carried out the house during the
late fire, and within half an hour from
that her great fright had effected a com
plete cure of her infirmity.
—A romantic story is told of a Cuban
woman who, with her son of fourteen
years, commands a detachment of the
rebel army. She leads the insurgents in
person, dressed in riding habit and
mounted on a fine horse, and is as brave
as a lion.
—A man in Springfield, Mo., ventured
to expostulate with his wife in regard to
some points in the architecture of a shirt
that she was making for him. By way
of reply, she seized an axe and buried
the blade in his skull. He has no use
for the garment now 7 , but this brief do
mestic lesson should be remembered.
—A party of New Jersey fox hunters,
the other day, came to a sudden halt be
fore. a picket fence. The kind hearted
fox paused in its career, trotted back,
beckoned the bold riders to follow it,
conducted them to a place where some
slats had been broken out, and did not re
sume its flight until the last man had
crawled through.
—Henry Lee set fire to a house near
Fredericksburg, Ya., and was unsuspect
ed ; but his innocent son was arrested,
and was likely to be convicted by cir
cumstantial evidence. The son told his
father to keep silent, and allow him to
be punished. The father consented, but
afterward changed his mind, wrote a
confession and drowned himself.
—An exchange says : “ There is a lu
natic in Hoboken who in making his
will bequeathed his body to the Empe
ror of Germany, his soul to the President
of the United States, his dog to the Gov
ernor of New Jersey, and his old clothes
to his wife.” If that lunatic’s soul is of
any special value, we would advise the
President to accept it and substitute it
for his ©wn.
—A singular ease is reported from
Brooklyn. A woman mas badly fright
ened by a cat some months previous to
the birth of her child. That child prov
ed to be a girl, and is now 18 years of
age and married. Duriug her girlhood
she gave no evidence of being effected by
her mother’s fright excepting, indeed, a
propensity to chase rats and occasionally
to sit on the backyard fence and howl a
little on moonlight nights ; but strange
to relate, since the birth of her own ba
by she always lifts it out of the crib by
the back of the neck with her teeth.
CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY ITORNING, DECEMBER 10, 1875.
DEVILTRIES.
Ttie Raciest, I<atest and Best Wilicisnis.
—When the man said “ look into my
heart” it is supposed he had a windy-pain
in his stomach.
—“ 3am, why am lawyers like fishes ?”
“I doesn’t meddle wid dat subject at all.”
“ Why, kase dev am fond of debate.”
—On account of the failure of those ow
ing us to pay up, we are compelled to eat
but two meals a day.
—Why are country girls’ cheeks like
well printed cotton ? Because they are
warranted to wash and keep their color.
—He was milking the river and fell in,
was Rochester Democrat’s epitaph on the
mi'kman who was drowned the other
day.
—A Br ooklyn young man of observa
tion mentioned that girls who wear stri
ped stockings prefer to kick the gate
open.
—The schoolmaster who sat down on the
“ business end” of a pin that had been
ingeniously fixed on his chair, rose like
a Phoenix.
—“ William.” saida wife to her hus
band,l saw you coming out of a saloon to-
Well, my dear, you wouldn’t have me
stay there ?
—On Democrat mountain, Colorado, is
a path known as the Beecher trail. It runs
along the sharp and ragged edge of many
a yawning precipice.
—“lsn’t your husband a little bald ?”
asked one lady of another, in a store, yes
terday. “ There is’nt a bald hair in his
head,” was the hasty rep\y of the wife.
—The mean man of the Chicago Times
seizes his pen and remarks : “ The pep
permint crop of Wayne county will reach
half a million this year. Now bring on
your belly-ache.”
—Grandfather to his hopeful—“ My
son, which would you rather have when
you get home, a little brother or a little
sister ?” Grandson—well, I would rath
er have a little pony.”
—Two Irishmen were hunting. They
met a donkey. One of them shot him
and exclaimed, triumphantly : “ Pat,
now faith and be jabers, I’ve killed the
father of all the rabits.”
—A New York merchant has been de
tected measuring thirty-four inches to
the yard. Two is nches inothing on a towel
but it tells heavily on a woolen shirt when
the thermometer drops down.
—After diligent search of ancient and
Scriptural history, wc'find that it was a
woman who used the first oath. Adam
complained that it was wrong to eat for
bidden fruit. Eve replied, “I don’t care
A-dam !” and took a large mouthful.
—A Wisconsin editor illustrates the
prevailing extravagance of the people of
the present day by calling attention to
the costly baby-carriages now in use,
while, when he was a baby, they hauled
him around by the hair of his head.
—The only living thing that can match
a singing canary’s noise, weight for in
ches, is a baby with the colic. And the
only tiling that can match a flea’s jump
ing, in the same propotion, is a nervous
papa, who sits down on lus hopeful’s bent
pin.
—Charivari tells of a negro named Do
mingo in one of the French colonies,
who, speaking of the advantages of the
Christian religion, said : “ There was a
time when I knew nothing of God or the
devil, but now I know and love them
both.”
—A lawyer, about to finish a bill of
costs, was requested by his client, a baker,
to make it as light as possible. All!”
said the lawyer, “ you might properly
enough say that to the foreman of your
establishment; but that is not the way I
make my bread.”
—Emerson said : “ Show us an intel
ligent family of boys and girls and we
will show you a family where newspapers
and periodicals are plentiful.” How
much more beautiful is that than to say,
“ Show me a bustle and I will show you
a newspaper bonanza.
—The prohibitary law being in full
force in Maine, a witness before a Belfast
Grand Jury was asked if lie had drank in
a certain saloon. “ Yes.” “ Often ?”
“ How much in six months ?” “ Well,
I can’t tell exactly. It might be—well—
perhaps—well, say a barrel.”
—A colored bootblack, whose inexpres
sibles were in a very dilapidated condi
tion about the seat, put the following co
nundrum to his mate : “ Jim, why am
I like Henry Ward Beecher ?” “ Give
it up,” replied Jim. “ Bekase ize a sit
tin oil de ragged edges of dis-pair.”
—Tliare is agratemenny rules to make
marrid life kumfortable, but the golden
one is this : Go slow and give each oth
er haff the road. This rule iz simp’e
and easy az milking a cow on the right
side, and will be found az usephul as ile
to avoid hot journals and dri aziles.
—The little rascal was so troublesome
that Jones could stand it no longer and
quietly kicked him out. “ What have
you been doing to my William?” sharp
ly asked Mrs. Cloggers, who quickly
made her appearance. “ I’ve Y-toed an
obnoxious Bill, ma’am,” was the quiet
reply of our hero ; and the old lady went
to have some further conversation with
William about it.
—The other day a Vicksburg father
gently said ; “ Don’t stuff victuals into
your mouth in that way, my son ; George
Washington didn’t eat after that fashion.”
The boy, after pondering for a while,
remarked to himself: “ And I don’t
believed that George Washington licked
his boy for finding a bottle of whiskey in
the shed when he was hunting after a
horse-shoe, either.”
—At a recent funeral of a Danbury
man, one of the neighbors, a female of
very sympathetic nature, was so deeply
affected as to attract the attention of
those present. The wife of the deceased,
a tall, raw-boned woman, noticing the
attention paid to the neighbor, kiudly
approached her, and in a hoarse whis
per, indicative of the most intense dis
gust, demanded : “ Who is running this
funeral, you or me?” The sympathetic
neighbor dried her tears.
—He didn’t look like afbeggar, but he
had his plans all laid before he struck
Vicksburg, and he cleared a hundred dol
lars here in two days. He' didn’t go
around whining : “ Please, sir, for the
love of God,” as most of them do, but he
walked up to a man, called him “ Gene
ral,” to start off with, and the shinplasters
came in faster than he could take them.
The only five men in town who didn’t
contribute were men whom he inadver
tantly addressed as “ Captain.”
POLAND.
Sliockisix Brutality of Russian Sol
(liory in Tol'iynia--The of a
City Allured Into Camp ami Infa
mously Outraged.
[New York Mercury.]
A horrible account of atrocities by
Russian soldiery upon the population of
a Polish town in Volhynia has reached
Warsaw, and earnest appeals have been
made to the Emperor for his interfer
ence, but without avail. The scene of
the outrage was in the vicinity of the
prosperous city of Lutsk, on the river
Styr. Justoutside Lutsk, on a vast plain,
flanked on one side by the bank of the
river Styr, there is a large military camp,
located partly for drilling purposes and
partly to supply the military police of
the vicinity. On the 10th of October a
a grand parade had been arranged in
honor of the r eligious festival of the pat
ron Saint of Czar Alexander IT, and to
increase, as was said, the splendor of the
ceremonies, there was to be a grand illu
mination of the camp in the evening, a
concert by the regiment bands, fire-works
to be followed by a dance on a tempora
ry platform. Great preparations had
been made, and the entire population of
the cliv were invited. Prominent among
the visitors were wealthy Jewish me**-
chants of the city, with their wives and
daughters, bedecked with their costliest
jewels. The fireworks and illuminations
and concert were all that were promised,
and the thousands of spectators were so
delighted that they pressed forward to
where the bands were stationed, and were
entirely unconscious that they did so, a
whole regiment of infantry, fully armed,
commanded by a Col Jacknek, bad
marched out of their quarters, and com
pletely surrounded the large crowd.
When the infantry had entirely encir
cled the crowd, the chief in command of
the camp shouted in stentorian voice the
order in Russian : “ Tieper pohulajtie
sebriat,” which translated means,
NOW, CHILDREN, AMUSE YOURSELVES.
As if by magic the fire-works ceased,
the lamps were extinguished, the illumi
nated transparencies grew dark, the niu
s'cians dropped their instruments, and
they and the eight thousand soldiers,
well armed, fell upon the people like so
many ravenous wolves. The women
were robbed of their jewels, and even of
their dresses, and then ravished. The
men were knocked down, money and oth
er valuables taken, and those wli® had
courage enough to de end their mothers,
wives or sisters, were bayoneted and
many were killed, and numbers of the
females also met their death at the hands
of the soldiers. Others succeeded in .es
caping toward morning, half naked,with,
many wounds and bruises, and many of
them it is said, have since died. Among
them was a Polish Countress, and her
daughter of eighteen years. Both reached
Lutsk, at daybreak, barefooted and cov
ered with bloody rags, only to lay down
to die. Her carriage, horses, coachman
and footman were never seen again.
Hundreds among the Jewish merchants,
who had still strength enough, gathered
together their means even before the sun
had risen, and escaped across the Aus
trian boundry. It seems that this out
rage was carefully planned before, and
not only with the knowledge, but with
the approval, of the officers in command.
A Lieutenant Colonel of one of the regi
ments in camp had a room at the house
of a rich tradesman, whose family had
made arrangements to atiend ; but the
officer implored them to stay away, with
out giving them any reason. They heed
ed it and were thus saved. The Gene
ral in command of the district has his
headquarters in Lutsk. On that fearful
night he attended a carousal at the coun
try-scat of a Russian nobleman several
miles distant. Some of the city authori
ties made a formal complaint to him, but
he would not listen to them and ordered
them to hold their tongues. Despairing
to have justice done by the local military
commander, the authorities sent a per
sonal appeal to the Emperor, directed to
him by telegraph.
The telegram had a remarkable effect.
Those who sent the telegram were pri
vately informed that if they chose to per
sist in obtruding upon His Majesty, they
would find the road to Siberian exile
quicker than they would like. The tele
graph operators who forwarded the dis
patch were removed. Yet the soldiers
in camp Lutsk, guilty of this savage out
rage, received no word of censure, but
instead, were ordered to march oft to the
town of Krylov, where they will receive
the honor of being reviewed by the Czar
in person. Such is the way in which the
Emperor of all the Russians, “ the firm
friend and ally of the United Spates and
the American people,” manages to gov
ern his Polish subjects.
Fashion Notes. *
“ Commencing at the foot.” Stock
ings in solid colors are fashionable, light
blue, lavander cardinal red are the most
popular.
Anew evening dress is made to button
on the shoulders. It is sleeveless and
has arm holes open to the waist.
The newist style neketies are all in very
dark shades of the fashionable colors,
embroided on the edge with silk floss.
The “ Orleans” shaped hat has a wide
flaring brim, and is worn on the back of
the head as if to shade the neck, leaving
the head entirely exposed.
Soft hats have come in style again for
gentlemen, having supplmened the hard
stove-pipe’s which for some not discove
erable reason are supposed to import dig
nity to their wearers.
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A Snake Story.
George M. Ball, a young man of
eighteen years, employed on the farm of
Air. Perry, in Westfield, has been accus
tomed to drink, while milking night and
morning, a quantity of warm milk. A
few mornings since, failing to take his
accustomed draught, something came up
in his throat, choaking him, and he fell
ever senseless. A son of Mr. Perry was
surprised to see a snake’s head protru
ding from Ball’s mouth, but on attemp
ting to seize it, the serpent retreated
down his throat. A powerful emetic was
administered, and in a short time the
young man vomited up a “ hooked adder,”
two feet eight inches long, and about as
thick as two fingers of a man’s hand. It
lived only five minutes. Ball has proba
bly carried the serpent for at least twelve
years, as he was accustomed to drink
from a small brook when a boy. Since
parting from his tenant his health has
greatly improved, and his appetite is a
little more reasonable.
Rev, A. Gr. Haygood or Roads.
The Rev. Aticus G. Haygood writes an
exceedingly sensible communication to
the Constitution about roads. How we
can have good roads is shown as follows :
How can we have good roads ? Make
them! How? With convict labor. Mon
day night, November 8, about one dozen
recruits for our convict army came up
the Macon and Western road ; and they
keep coining, white and black. There
'must be, all told, nearly a thousand of
them. What shall we do with them ?
Every Legislature asks the question and
debates it. It was always wrong to insult
honest mechanics by teaching convicts
their trades. We can’t build a rail
road by every man’s house. Perhaps we
have enough railroads until increased
production shall give them more to do.
Perhaps nobody likes to see the State
government hiring its convicts to indi
viduals for farming, brick making, or
anything of the sort. Make good roads
with our army of convicts. We need the
roads and don’t know what to do with
the convicts. We can try the experi
ment at least—it can’t be worse than the
experiments we have made. How can it
be managed ? How can the State and
County governments adjust themselves
to the work ? Who shall furnish the
tools, the food? We elect legislators—
that is we elect members of the Legisla
ture—to answer just such questions.
They can find the answer if they are
only willing and capable. Convict labor,
making good roads in Georgia, would
conflict with no form of skilled labor.
Road-making is a public work and of
utility, It may take twenty years to
make good raods where our people need
them. But what will wages avail for our
convict labor if we do not use it some
such way? A few thousand dollars a
year. Good roads in a few counties
would ir crease the revenues of the State
by increasing the value of property far
more than the pitiful hire we receive for
our convict labor. If any legislator*
wishes to deserve monuments—wishes to
make himself historic in Georgia—let
him frame a law that shall turn over our
army of convicts upon our bad roads and
work them till they are good. We and
our children will call him blessed.
A Sa Serpent in Conflict with a Whale.
The Zanzibar corespondent of the
Western Morning News, writing under
date October 20, says; “ the bark Pau
line has arrived at Zanzibar, with coal
for her Majesty’s ships. When off Cape
St. Roque, South America, a sight was
presented that made the crew aghast—
nothing less than the great sea serpent
engaged in a conflict with a whale. It
had wound itself twice round the whale,
and was twirling it with tremendous ve
locity, lashing the water into foam. The
noise could be distinctly heard on board,
and after battling for some time both
disappeared. The serpent’s length can
be imagined. It had two coils : round a
full-sized sperm whale, with thirty feet
clear at each end. Its diameter was from
three to four feet. They saw it twice af
terward. Once it came very close to the
vessel, and raised itself about sixty feet
out of the water, as if about to attack
Them. I have questioned men and offi
cers, trying to find out any discrepancy
tween their statements, but am a convert
to the belief that it was seen.” Another
naval officer writes to the Western Morn
ing News to precisely the same effect; and
the officers of her Majesty’s ships on the
station are said to be convinced of the
truth of the story.— Liverpool Courier.
Mow A Woman CJot Rich.
Six years ago Mrs. Mary Ahart was
living in a little tent on the edge of a
town. Her whole wordly possessions
consisted of this tent, a straw bed, two or
three boxes which served as chairs and
table, a little seven or eiglit-year-old girl,
and two cows and calves. She sold the
spare milk of these two cows, carrying it
around town with a tin pail, and wi'h
the product, and from work which she
did for her neighbors, supported herself
and child. When she could get $3 or $5
ahead she would buy another calf or
yearling. It is not our purpose, adds the
Sentinel, to trace her progress up to the
present time minutely ; but the result is,
she now, in less than seven years, has
several hundred head of cattle, a fine
farm, with nice buildings and improve
ments, a comfortable, even luxuriant
home, and, instead of carrying milk
around by hand, rides in her own car
riage. Her daughter is a young lady, ed
ucated and accomplished. To-day Mrs.
Ahart’s property is valued at from §40,000
to §50,000. And she has made it all by
honest industry and good management.
She lias had no outside help. She never
had a Government contract or fell heir
to any property.— Laramie [Col.)Sentinel.
Fntrue to Himself.
He is a second hand clothier, and holds
forth in south St. Joseph. It was about
the hour of ten yesterday morning when
he reeled into an adjoining establisement,
fell into a chair, weaved his hands into
the tangled locks of his grey hair, and
rocking back and forth, mourned out :
“ Oh ! dear, oh ! dear, I ish ruined.”
“ Yot is der matter, Jacob,” asked his
sympathizing brother in trade, bending
over him.
“ You remember dat coat vot I paid
six bits for on yesterday ?”
“ Yes, I remember him.”
“Just now a country man came
in and asks me bow much for dat, I tells
him dree dollar ; and would you believe
it, Moses, he puts his hand right into
his pocket and pays the full price with
out a word.” Here he lowed his voice
to the lowest whisper —“ so help me gra
cious, Moses, I believe he’d paid me fis
dollars, just the same.”
“ Jacob, bow you vas swindle yourself.”
“ Dat vas vot makes me hate mine-self
so much as never vas.”
And the old man limped back into his
own establishment, and doubled all his
goods at first call.— St. Joseph Gazette.
—“ Hurry from church, for I want
to hear what the preacher says about
Jesus,” said Matthias Smith, of Kittan
ing, Pa., to his wife as she left the house
for chuch on Sunday morning last.
When she returned home after church
she found her husband hanging by his
neck to a rope from one of the beams in
the kitchen ceiling. He was dead, and
this note laid on the kitchen table :
“DearWfie: You stayed too long.
I was so anxious to hear about Jesus that
I could not wait. I have gone to see
Him. Matthias.”
The deceased man was seventy-two
years of age. ■+
VOL. II—NO. 10.
POPE BARROW,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CRAWFORD, - - _ GEORGIA,
Will practice in the counties of Clarke, Oco
nee, Oglethorpe, Elbert, Wilkes, Tali a fern
ami Hancock. Special attention given to col
lections. oetlo-lr
PLANTATION
TO REXT J
GIOOD LAND, GOOD HOUSES—
W Apply to J. G. GIBSON,
Craw font Ga.
TUI? Pf Apr to get your SALT is
■*-■l-1-Li J- Lid vJjat Wi teller & Jarrell’s
To the People of Old Oglethorpe:
o
TAIMADGE, HODGSON & CO.,
WHOLESALE ANI) RETAIL
GROCERS & PROVISION DEALERS,
College Avenue, Athens, Ga.,
A\ on hi respectfully announce to the citizens of Oglethorpe, an adjoining country, thut they
have now m store a Full and Complete line of “ ' *
STAPLE &. FANCY GROCERIES,
CANNED GOODS, FISH, MEATS,
and everything in the Canned Goods line.
Pickles, Sauces, Catsups, Teas, Coffees, Spices of every kind
Buckets, Brooms. Tubs, full line of Wood and Willow Ware,
CHEROOTS AND CIGARS
Soaps, Soda, Starch,
and everything else in a First-class Grocery Store may be had of us. A full line of
Porters, Hies, Wines, Brandies, Rums, Gins, WHISKIES of all grades.
At WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
200Sboxes Fine CRACKERS at Wholesale and Retail. 100 cases 1 It). OYSTERS.
In fact, over One Thousand Oses FRESH CANNED GOODS, of every description,
which will be Jobbed as ROW as Atlanta or August)).
Apples, Oranges, Nuts, of nil kinds.
of STAPLE SHOES < FACTORY GOODS ATA SUGARS
209 barrels FLOUR, MEAT and LARD, M ACKEREL of all grades,
and, in fact, EVERYTHING to
EAT, DRINK AND WEAR I
And we promise those who may favor us with a call, clever treatment and as Good Goods, at
as low figures, as will enable any honest mail to live.
TALMADGE, HODGSON & CO.
o-reat bargains
o
FOR THE NEXT TWENTY DAYS
GREAT INDUCEMENTS
WILL BE OFFERED TO CASH BUYERS!
o
NEW AND BEAUTIFUL NOTE PAPER AS FOLLOWS:
Nonotuck, assorted tints 20c or 0 for $1
Victor, all white 20e rr 6 for 1
Garland, assorted tints 25c or 5 for 1
oodbine, “ “ 25c or 5 for 1
Hanover, “ “ 25c or 5 tor 1
Thistle, “ “ 25c or 5 for 1
Oxford, “ “ 25c or 5 for 1
Bath, “ “ 25c or 5 for 1
Duchess, “ “ 25c or 5 for 1
Pembroke, “ “ (Rep) 30c or 4 for 1
Hyacinth, “ “ 35c or 3 for 1
Superfine Billet, cream laid 35c or 3 for 1
Baronial, white wove 35c or 3 for 1
Whittier, assorted tints 40c or 3 for 1
National, double Rep., assorted tints '. 40c, worth sqc
Dorcas, Satin, assorted tints, with paper of Needles 40c, wortli 50c
Byron, containing Paper and Envelopes, Ink, Pens, etc 50c, 3 for $1.20
The above are all new and beautiful styles of paper, put up in handsome boxes,'
one quire of paper and twenty-four Envelopes, full count, in each box.' They were
bought very low, and will be sold at PRICES NEVER BEFORE OFFERED IN
THIS MARKET It will pay you to lay in your supplies now, while the nrcseut
stock lasts, and while you have a chance to buy at low figures. Call and look at
samples, and you will be sure to buy. Everything in the way of
Boob, Stationery, Peis, Ink, Paper, Etc.,
Will be sold at EXTREMELY LOW PRICES at
BURKE’S BOOK STORE,
ATHENS, (iEOKCxIA.
. CHILDS, NICKERSON & CO.,
DEALERS ITV
IRON, STEEL, NAILS,
FAIRBANKS SCALES,
Agricultural Implements, Mill Findings,
AGENTS FOR
MOTS AID SAWYER’S COTTON GINS,
Circular Saws, Etc-, Etc-,
ATHENS, - - - - GEORGIA.
Go to Davis’ Gallery,
IN ATHENS,
IF YOU WANT
OLD PICTURES COPIED and ENLARGED
With RELIABLE and Guaranteed work,
At 25 Per Cent. Less
than Foreign Companies. jan29-tf
W. A. TALMADGE. F. P. TALMADGE.
THE OGLETHORPE' ECHO
SUBSCRIPTION.
ONE YEAR $2.00
SIX MONTHS 1.00
THREE MONTHS 5o
CLUB RATES.
FIVE COPIES or leas than 10, each... 1.75
TEN COPIES or more, each 1.50
Terms —Cash in advance. No pu}>er sent
until money received.
All papers stepped at expiration of time,
unless renewed.
NOTICE.
Cjt i*e a t R. e duct ion
IN PRICES!
ON AND AFTER OCTOBER FIRST, WE
shall offer to our customers Goods in our
line at much lAlWKßfigurrs than heretofore.
To enable us to do this we will adopt strietlv
THE CASH SYSTEM!
w e are now receiving a large and full assort
ment of Goods, bought at LOW PRICES,
which we invite all to call und examine.
CHILDS, NICKERSON & CO
Athens, Ga., Sept. 11, 1875. sepl7-tf
Granite Plaid, beautiful tints....4oc wortli 50c
English Cross Rill’d, asst’d t’ts-50c, 3 for $1.20.
Centennial, double liep, tintedJsoc, 3 for 1.20
University Plaid 50c, 3 for 1.20
Alhambra, Damask .50c, worth 00c.
Magnolia, Plaid 50c, worth 00c
Meridian, Plaid 50c, worth Gita.
Alhambra, Damask Rep., .50c, worth 00c.
Ashes of Roses, Damask 50c, worth 00c
Prairie Queen, Cream Laid 50;, vortli 60c.
Royal Irish Linen 50e, worth 60e
Damask, various styles GOc, 2 forsl
Mourning Papaterie, new 00c, 2 for 1.
Doty Dimple, for the little ones 30 and 40c
250,000 CIGARS
NOW IN STORE, OF TIIE
Choicest Brands I
which we offer at GREATLY REDUCED"
PRICES. Also, a large stock of
SMOKING AND CHEWING
TOBACCO,
SNUFF, GENUINE MEERCIIAUM PIPES'
AND ALL SMOKERS’ ARTICLES.
A liberal disconnt allowed to Jobbers buy
ing largely. Come one! Come all!!
KALVARINSKY & LIEBLEE,',
Under Newton House, Athens, (J