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TWENTY YEARS AOO.
Ive wandered to the village, Tom ; I’ve sat
beneath the tree
Upon the school-house ground which shelter
ed yon and me.
But none were left to greet me, Tom, and few
were left to kno v,
That played with us upon the green some
twenty years ago.
The grass is just as green, Tom ; barefooted
boys at play
Were sporting just as we did then, with spirits
just as gay ;
But the “ rimster” sleeps beneath the hill,
which, coated o’er with snow,
Afforded us a sliding pla;e, just twenty years
ago.
The old school-house is altered now—the
benches are replaced
By new ones, very like the same our pen
knives had defaced.
But the same old bricks are in the wall, the
bell swings to and fro ;
Its music’s just the same, dear Tom, ’twas
twenty years ago.
The boys were playingsomc old game beneath
that same old tree;
I have forgot the name just now—you’ve
played the same with me
On that same spot; ’twas played with knives,
by throwing so and so ;
The leader had a task do there—twenty years
ago.
The river’s running just as still; the willow's
on its side
Are wider than they were Tom ; the stream
appears less wide—
But the grape-vine swing is ruined now,
where onee w r e played the beau,
And swung our sweethearts—pretty girls—
just twenty years ago.
The spring that bubbled ’neath the hill, close
by the spreading beech,
Is very low—’twas onee so high that we could
nearly reach;
And, kneeling down to get a drink, dear Tom
I started so
To see how'sadly I am changed since twenty
years ago.
Near by the spring, upon the elm, you know
I cut your name,
Your sweetheart’s just beneath it, Tom, and
you did mine the same ;
Some heartless wretch had peeled the bark—
—’twas dying slow but sure,
Just as the one whose name you cut just
twenty years ago.
My lids have long been dry, Tom, but tears
came in my eyes;
I thought of her 1 loved so well —those early
broken ties;
I visited the old church-yard, and took some
flowers to strew
Upon the graves of those wc loved some twen
ty years ago.
Some lire in the church-yard laid—some sleep
beneath the sea,
But few are left of our old class, excepting
you and me;
And when our time are come, Tom, and we
are called to go,
1 hope they’ll lay us where we played just
twenty years ago.
President Grant’s Message.
President Grant’s message is published
and is quite a voluminous document and
well written. He opens with the recom
mendation ofa constitutional amendment
on the subject of education, believing
upon the education of the people depends
the perpetuity of the Republic. Owing
to the millions of dollars worth of church
property, lie advocates a tax thereon.
The United States is at peace with all
nations. The Cuban question is d ; cussed
and he advocates leaving it alone, but
hints intervention may become necessary.
The Mexican outrages on the Texan bor
der are mentioned in connection with
the court sitting on the Alabama Claims,
the sub-marine international telegraph,
naturalization and the finances, lie ad
vocates specie resumption in 1879. The
reports of departments are commented
on, while the navy is reported in good
condition.
The message concludes as follows:
'‘As this will he the last annual message
which I shall have the honor of trans
mitting to Congress before my successor
is chosen, I will repeat or recapitulate
the questions which I deem of vital im
portance, which may be legislated upon
and settled at this session. First. That
the States shall be required to afford the
opportunity of a good common school
education to every child within their
limits. Second. No sectarian tenets
shall ever be taught in any school sup
ported in whole or in part by the State,
nation, or by the . proceeds of any tax
levied upon any community. Make edu
cation complusory as to deprive all per
sons who cannot read and write from be
coming voters .after the year 1880, dis
franchising none, however, on grounds
of illiteracy, who may be voters at the
time this amendment takes effect.
Third. Declare Church and State forever
separate and distinct, but each free
within their proper spheres, and that all
church property shall bear its own pro
portion of taxation. Fourth. Drive out
licensed immorality, such as polygamy
and the importation of women for illegit
imate purposes. To recur again to the
centennial year, it would seem as though
now, as we are about to begin the second
century of our national existence, would
be a most lit time for these reforms.
Fifth. Enact such laws as will insure a
speedy return to sound currency, such as
will command respect of the world.”
Do not liaiigk.
Do not laugh at that drunken man
reeling through the streets. However
ludicrous the sight may be, just pause
and think. Ho is going home to some
tender heart that will throb with intense
agony; some doting mother, perhaps,
who will grieve over the downfall of him
’ who was once her sinless boy, or it may
be a fond wife whose heart will almost
burst with grief as she views the destruc
tion of her idol: or may be a loving sister
who will shed bxtter tears over the degra
dation of her brother, shorn of his manli
ness and self respect. Rather drop a
tear in silent sympathy with those hearts
so keenly sensitive and tender, yet so loyal
that they can not accept sympathy tender
ed them’either in word, look or act, al
though it might fall upon their crushed
and wounded hearts as refreshingly as
the summer dew upon the withering
Elant. As your eye follows the ine
riafce’s uncertain foot-steps, record a
solemn vow in heaven that while your
life endures, you will do all that within
you lies to further the cause of temperance
and to make it a crime to sell or drink
intoxicants.
Champion Hog-* in Missouri.
Mr. N. H. Gentry will soon add to his
stock farm near Sedalia the imported sow
Royal JDuchess, for which he paid $400;
Sovereign Lady at S6OO, which is also im
ported, as well as the male hog Lord Liv
erpool, for which he paid S7OO. This lot
of nogs have won the first prizes wherever
shown. They were purchased in Canada.
St. Louis Republican.
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BY T. L. GANTT.
TO DRUNKARDS.
SPOXTAXEOI S COMBUSTION OF THE
LIYIXCi HIMAX 800 A'.
Very I.ean and Very Fat Drunkard!*
Liable to be Burned l'p.
Some years ago a story, supposed to be
one of those convenient, made-up stories
which help to fill out the bottom of a
newspaper column, went the rounds of
the press, and died away at last in the ex
treme rural districts, about the spontane
ous burning up of an old Tennessee to
per. It was said that he put a coal of fire
upon his pipe to light it, and while in the
act of blowing this coal to ignite the to
bacco, his breath took fire, a kind of blue
flame and dense smoke curled up, and,
in a minute or two, the smoke cleared
away, and all that was left of toper, pipe,
breath and all was a heap of ashes.
Nobody seriously believed the story of
the Tennessee toper, and yet when one
comes to look into the matter he will find
that in different parts of the civilized
world cases of spontaneous combustion
of the ’living human body are on record
which are as well authenticated as the
battle of Bunker Hill. Medical men
have been acquainted with such facts for
years. Moreover, cases in which per
sons have thus anticipated purgatory,and
at the same time disposed of their bodies
by involuntary self-cremation, are by no
means uncommon as one might suppose.
Various medical books mention numbers
and numbers of them, about which there
;an be no shadow of doubt.
The causes of such an extraordinary
phenomenon as the spontaneous burning
up of a live human being was at first an
impenetrable mystery. Juries summon
ed in these cases readily arrived at the
nearest and easiest way out of the diffi
culty, and decided that it came by a “vis
itation of God and even now, when
visitations of God are not supposed to be
so frequent as they used to be, the mys
tery of spontaneous combustion is not yet
wholly solved by science. This much is
certain, however, it occurs in elderly per
sons of intemperate habits. Both very
lean and very fat drunkards are liable to
be burnt up. Thirdly—women particular
ly are apt to be taken out of the world in
this awful manner.
Death from spontaneous combustion,
or, as it used to be called “ preternatural
combustion by visitation of God,” is al
most instantaneous. One moment the
unfortunate individual is a live human
being ; the next moment he is a heap of
ashes and a bad smell, with perhaps an
item or two of a half consumed head or
foot left to tell what had been. There is
but one well-established instance in
which the spontaneously consumed per
son lived long enough to narrate how he
was attacked. That individual was a
Roman Catholic priest, Father Bertholi.
Father Bertholi retired to bed one even
ing in the house of a relative. A few
moments after, “ a strange noise, mingled
with cries, was heard from the room.”
The people of the house rushed in, and
beheld Father Bertholi standing in the
floor, surrounded by a strange, flickering,
flame, which receded as they came near,
like a will-o’-the wisp. A surgeon was
called, who found the skin of the right
arm and of the back loosed and hanging
down.
The patient lived four days, and died
in a most horrible manner, too horrible
to describe. The only account he could
give of the attack was that he had sud
denly been struck with a club. On look
ing at his arm he saw a spark of fire hang
ing to his sleeve, which instantly was
burnt offhis arm. His cap was also
burnt off, while his hair was not even
scorched. In this case there was no fire
or light in the room.
One ease of “ preternatural combus
tion”, which occurred something over
sixty years ago, seived an excellent pur
pose to our good friends, the Methodists,
who printed it far and wide and made a
truly awful example of it. The medical
man who records this case is at pains to
state in the beginning that he does not
depend solely for his facts upon the Meth
odist Magazine, or even upon the Wes
leyan minister who first told the story,
but that it was confirmed from other sour
ces. The story of this truly awful exam
ple is about thus :
Near 2 o’clock one night the keeper of
an almshouse in Limerick was awakened
by one of the inmates in great alarm.
There was something fearful going on in
his room, the person said. The keeper,
Mr. O’Neal, hastened to the spot, and
found lying in the middle of the floor a
burning human body, which was all over
of the color of a red-hot coal. In the
ceilingjust above was a large hole, on fire
around the edges, though which it ap
peared that the fiery red-hot body had
burned its way and dropped down into
the room of the inmate below. The per
son occupying the room above was an old
woman named Mrs. Peacocke, who was
not only a hardened sinner, but an invet
erate drunkard besides. Mr. O’Neal
rushed up-stairs and burst open this har
dened old sinner’s door. In this room he
found to his consternation no Mrs.
Peacocke, but only a hole in the floor
through which Mrs. Peacocke had burn
ed her tvay to the nether regions.
What only added to his horror was
that in Mrs.’ Peaeocke’s room there was
found no sign of candle, candlestick or
fire, except a few coals which had been
raked together and covered with ashes,
through the night, and which remained
undisturbed and uncovered in the grate.
It was as clear as daylight that the fire
could not have been communicated from
these coals. What was it then ? There
was but one explanation. In the morn
ing the mayor of the city, several minis
ters and other honorable-standing and
veracious gentlemen visited the scene and
decided to the complete satisfaction of all
parties that, sinee there was no sign of
her having caught fire from anything in
her room, and “ the extraordinary circum
stance of no part of the room being burnt
except the center, of the well authentica
ted circumstance of her recent diabolical
imprecations and lies, obliged every ob
server to resolve so awful an event into
the visitation of God’s judgement in the
punishment oi a daring aud persevering
sinner.”
When any flame is observed about
spontaneously burning human bodies,
it appears like the flame of alcohol , blue,
flickering, very difficult to extinguish by
water, and not readily communicated to
other bodies, even when they are inflam
mable. Often, indeed, extraordinary to
relate, the person’s clothing has been
found wholly uninjured, while the person
inside the clothing was burnt to a cinder.
The body itself is usually entirely con
CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 17, 1875.
sumed, while the head and portions of
the limbs are sometimes left untouched.
The maid of Cornelia Bandi, an elderly
Italian Conntess, went into her mistress’
room to wake her up, one mornieg. She
found no mistress, but on the floor, a
little distance from the bed, lay a heap of
ashes, and in this dreadful heap of ashes
some little parts of the head, eyes and
arms of the unhappy Countess. This la
dy bad been constantly in the habit of
bathing with camphorated spirit
of wine.
All over the room and furniture where
the Countess had been consumed, there
was a greasy, sooty deposit. The moist, i
disagreeable deposit of soot, and an offen
sive odor of burnt meat, always attended
any result from the spontaneous combus
tion of a human body. An examination
of the blood of these unfsrtunates—that
is, where there is any blood left to exam
ins—shows that a considerable quantity
is mingled with water part of the blood.
Rev. Mr. Ferguson of Dublin relates
that in the family of one of her parishion
ers resided an old woman who, with her
daughter, was in the habit of going to bed
in a state of intoxication every night.
The two slept in the same bed. The
old woman, for some days, had been
drinking more ardent spirits than usual,
when one morning the family were awak
ened by a horrible-smelling smoke.
They hastened to the apartment of the
two women, and found the body of the
old woman black as cinder, and smoking
all over. She was quite (lead when they
reached her, and almost entirely consum
ed, while neither her daughter who was
beside her, nor any of the bed clothing
was injured in the slighest degree.
One poor lady was awfully overtaken
in the midst of a matrimonial squabble.
One night her husband came home late
from a party, and the two quarreled vio
lently, both being in a state of intoxica
tion. The wife insisted upon siting up,
the husband going to bed. The lady per
sisted in her determination, whereupon
her husband vowed that if she would sit
up, she should sit up in the dark, and so
took her candle away and left her.
Next morning the maid-servant, open
ing the windows of a back parlor, perceiv
ed “ something” in her mistress’ arm
chair. She thought at first it had been
put there by her mistress’ son, as a scare
crow to frighten her. Going nearer, how
ever, she was suddenly horror struck to
find that this awful “ something” was
the remains of her hepless mistress. The
trunk of her body was entirely consumed,
while her upper and lower extremities
were not injured. The trunkless head,
with the hair in carl-papers, was still
leaning upon the right hand, and against
the wall. The face was slightly scorched,
but neither the hair nor the curl-papers
were burnt in the least. The room was
full of the offensive burnt odor before
mentioned. It was only with the greatest
difficulty that the medical profession were
able to reach the facts of this case, since
the family of the dead woman used every
means in their power to hush the affair
up. No wonder !
When a human being takes fire inside
and burns up of himself, how does he do
it ? The world, especially the medical
part of it, having outgrown the theory of
the visitation of God on this subject, it
becomes neccessary to account for spon
taneous combustion on rational princi
ples. This theory and that have been
held by diffesent persons, but the most
plausible one seems to be that the com
bustion is caused by the explosion of in
flammable gases generated in a diseased
anddeprayved organization. The body
of a patient who died in a hospital in
France was examined, and when per
forations were made in various parts of
it, a gas issued therefrom which took fire
from the flame of a candle.
The body of a living human being
sometimes becomes so diseased that its
natural secretions are depraved and
perverted. In this state it is supposed
that certain inflammable gases are gen
erated, wdiich mingling with air and oxy
gen, from explosive mixtures inside the
human body. The generation of these
gases is attended with heat, and off’ you;
drunkard goes, pop ! and nothing is left
of him but a greasy smoke and a heap of
ashes.
To Young Ladies.
I wonder how many girls tell their
mothers everything. Not those “ young
ladies” who go to and from school, smile,
bow, and exchange notes and cartes de
visites with young men who make fun of
them and their pictures, speaking in a
way that would make their cheeks burn
with shame if they heard of it. At this,
most incredulous and romatic young la
dies, they will do, although they gaze at
your fresh young faces admiringly, and
send or give you charming verses and
bouquets. No matter what “ other girls
do”—don’t you do it. School girl flirta
tions may end disastrously, as many a
foolish, wretched young girl could tell
you. Your yearning for someone to love
is a great need of every woman’s heart.
But there is a time for everything. Don’t
let the bloom and freshness of your heart
becrushed in flirtations—And, above all,
tell your mother everything. Never be
ashamed to tell her—who should be your
best friend and confident—all that you
think and feel. It is so very strange that
so many young girls will tell every person
but their mother that which is most im
portant she should know. It is very sad
that indifferent persons should know
more about her own fair daughters than
she does herself.—[Fanny Fern.
Preparing; for Danger.
There is a man at Ipswich who is bound
not to be burned alive. He lives in a
house with only one pair of stairs, and
every Tuesday night, according to a local
paper, at twelve, he cries “ Fire I” at
which his wife and children quickly rise
and dress. He then takes out a window
sash, puts a rope around his wife, and
lowers her to the ground, then throws
into her arm one child at a time. He
puts his furniture into the street and re
moves it to a place of safety. The whole
time occupied is less than fifteen minutes,
and he hopes to do it in ten. —Springfield
Republican.
Bone Fellons.
We meet occasionally a friend suffer
ing that most painful affletion, a joint
felon. The following is said to be sure
cure for it: Dry rock salt, pounded and
mixed with spirits of turpentine. Put
the mixture in a cloth, aua wrap around
the part affected, and change when it
gets dry. This is said to kill the felon in
twenty-four hours.
A premium corn crop in Ohio was 640
bushels from four acres.
DEVILTRIES.
The Raciest, Latest and Bast Briticisms.
—New name for tight boots—A com
crib.
—John’s father is Bob’s son. What
kin is Bob to John ?
—“ She stoops’to conquer” was written
before the days of pin-back skirts.
—Can it be that the Keely motor has
gone where the woodbine twineth ?
—Mr. Moody is doing his best to coun
teract the cold weather by picturing the
tortures of hell.
—Mrs. Oates, who some time ago be
came Titus a parson could bind them,
has kicked out of her Tracy’s.
—A Rome clerk voted the following
ticket: Oil burgamot, 2 drachms; oil
cloves, 1 drachm ; alcohol, etc.
—“Courtship is bliss,” said an ardent
young man. “ Yes, and matrimony is
blister,” snarled an old bachelor.
—To the surprise of every one but her
husband, a California woman has just
licked a lion in a single combat.
—Anything Midas touched was turned
into gold. In these days, touch a man
with gold and he’ll turn into anything.
—When Adam got tired naming his
descendants, and when he got half
through he said : “ Let’s quit and call
the rest Smith.”
—Nellie Sartoris is coming back to
her mother again next month, but per
sons who can calculate correctly need not
be misled by this announcement.
—An Eastern country editor remarks,
with much meekness that “ the late Mr.
Astor was the richest man in America,
except one, whose name modesty forbids
us to mention.”
—This thing of the English coming
over here to get their calicoes is rather
strange. If each piece of calico had a
girl wrapped up in it, though, it wouldn’t
be at all strange.
—Spilkins says that all the perils and
horrors of a maelstrom aren’t a circum
stance to the horrors of hearing a female
strom on the piano, next door, from
morning till night.
—“Charles!” she murmured as they
strolled along the other evening, and
gazed upward at the bejeweled firma
ment; “Charles, dear, which is Venus
aud which is Adonis?”
—ln the population of Tennessee there
are two dogs to every man ; and this fact
goes a long way toward accounting for
the hitherto unplained popularity of par
son Brownlow’s paper.
—Stanley writes that the last African
king he met had but three hundred
wives. In Africa a king with but three
hundred wives is looked upon by the
girls as almost a widower.
—ln other Georgia cities the price of
milk has gone up two cents a quart for
the winter, but Augusta’s excellent sys
tem of water warks enable milkmen
there to retail at the old rates.
—“Father,” said a juvenile to his pa
ternal guardian, who had the habit of
alternating from piety to profanity, “ I
do think you ought to stop praying or
swearing—l don’t care which.”
—lt is important to know the differ
ence between mushrooms and toadstools,
but it takes years to find out. The only
sure test is to eat one. If you live, it is
a mushroom ; if you die, it is a toadstool.
-—The grateful citizens of Green Bay,
Michigan, have presented Mr. Jackson,
of that place, with a silver-headed cane
for having refrained from kicking his
wife out of bed during a married life of
seven years.
—A New York preacher disappeared
not long ago, and nothing has been heard
of him since. As no woman is missing
from the neighborhood, the people there
regard it as the most ridiculous and un
heard of disappearance on record.
—“ Mrs. Smith,” said John to his wife
the other morning, “if you give me a
Christmas present this year, please ar
range it so that the bill won’t come in
till the next month. It’s just as well to
keep up the illusion fora short time.”
—Moody and Sankey’s work in Phila
delphia shows that their wonderful pow
er has not abated. They have converted
a man who confessed to favoring a third
term, and a Philadelphia alderman.
The converts will exhibitited at the Cen
tennial.
—“Oh, why am I not married to some
one else?” said she, as he walked into
the room in sections, and absent-mind
edly sat down in the slop-pail. “ Mad
am,” said he, “ this (hie) only time in
two years we’ve ’deavored to solve the
same problem.”
—A Franklin (Pa.) congregation re
cently announced its intention to add
S2OO to the pastor’s salary for each child
born in his family. Pity Plymouth
Church didn’t hold out that inducement
to Beecher, and in all likelihood the
scandal would have been perverted.
—A meteoric stone weighing ninety
pounds fell in Missouri last week, stri
king a darkey square on the head. He
seemed to be considerably confused when
he got up, and went off muttering : “Ef
I knowed for shuah, de man who frowed
dat brick, den I’d see whar am de cibbil
rights of niggahs.”
—“ Is this the doctor’s office ?” inqui
red a man who popped his head inside
the sanctum door. “ No, sir—the second
door above.” “ Well, I am too tired to
go any further,” said he, sadly ; “ but if
you see the doctor any time this morn
ing, I wish you would tell him that my
mother-in-law is dying, and we’d like to
have him call in if he gets time.”
—A Silver City (Nev.) young lady,
who had a passion for babies, said to a
little four-year-old angel who had a bran
new sister : “ I say, buddy, won’t you
give me your baby sister? I love little
babies.” Young hopeful: “ No, I tant.”
Young lady (winking at her young
man): “Why, sonny, why won’t you
give the baby to me?” Hopeful (indig
nantly): “ Fy, he’d ’tarve to death—your
dress opens behine.” Painful silence
for the next fifteen minutes.
—A powerfully-built young lady from
Ghost’s Gulch walked into a dry goods
store at Canon City, Col., the other day,
and inquired of the bachelor clerk : “Do
you keep hoes, young fellow?” “Yes,
mam, all kinds,” was the reply; and
pulling down a couple of bSxes of hose,
he held up a pair to view. She looked
straight at him, turned red, and over
flowed with the remark: "You blasted
fool, them’s stockin’s—l want a hoe.”
He referred her to a hardware store.”
CORRESPONDENCE DEPARTMENT.
PHILADELPHIA.
A Trip t (he Qaakcr City—Snnduy In
WaxhlncDHi—Hoody and Naukcy- -
(a rant and a Third Term, Ete.
Philadelphia, Dec. 10,1875.
Editor Oglethorpe Echo:
I promised to give you a note occa
sionally, but have been so glosely enga
ged with my college duties have not, till
now, had time to send you a line.
I reached this city without an accident,
and with only an incident or two worthy
of notice.
I spent a day on my route, with my
brother in Anderson, S. C., my old na
tive town. Anderson County Agricultu
ral Fair was being held. Governor
Chamberlain was present, and delivered
an address, telling the farmers in his
speech how to farm (?) What think you
of an imported Yankee Governor telling
Southern farmers how to make money
farming!
I had to stop over either in Washing
ton or Baltimore, as 1 came on, as cars
don’t run north of the latter city on
Sunday. So I spent the day in Wash
ington—went to church at what is known
there aud among Southern Methodists as
Mount Vernon Place; —the only Southern
church, I believe, in the city; had a
good sermon from Rev. Dr. Wilson, of
the Baltimore Conference.
The opinion in Washington is, that
Grant is in for a third term—that he is
the strongest man in the party, and the
same opinion prevails here.
In the last election in this city, but
for the question of excluding the Bible
from the public schools, the Democrats
would not have been defeated. Many
Democrats voted with the Republicans
in order to defeat the Catholics in the
crusade against the Protestants and the
Bible.
Moody and Sankey, the renowned re
ligious revivalists, are here, and have
been for the past week, holding meet
ings. The different Protestant denomi
nations have united and fitted up an old
freight depot, at an expense of $20,000,
for a place to worship. It seats comfort
ably 11,000 persons. To give you some
idea of the enthusiasm they inspire, I
need only to tell you that the house is
crowded at every service, and at times
as many as 5,000 persons are turned away
for want of room. Sankey is the evan
gelist of song ; Moody the preacher. The
former is a Methodist, the latter a Con
gregationalism They ignore, however,
all tenets of minor import, and preach
and sing the Gospel in its purity. San
key is, without doubt, the sweetest living
singer. At times, hundreds will weep
involuntarily while he sings. Moody is
an ordinary man, compared with other
preachers, I mean intellectually, but re
markably well beloved ; has a great deal
of physical energy, unbounded zeal, re
gardless of man’s opinion, and has an
unlimited supply of anecdotes and inci
dents, that he relates with wonderful ef
fect. He is more of an exhorter than
preacher. His zeal, anecdotes, deep pi
ety, with Sankey’s singing, continued for
months together, is bound to tell on the
masses. I have several times attended
their meetings, and their services are
more like those to be seen at a camp
meeting in Georgia or South Carolina,
when the people are having what the
preachers term a “ good time,” than any
thing I ever saw. These, cold, formal,
worldly, phlegmatic Philadelphians nev
er saw it after “ this fashion.”
In my next I will speak of the city
and Centennial. E. G. M.
AUGUSTA.
Pretty Ladies, I>ull Times, the Augusta
Exchange and lit, Vernon House.
Augusta, Nov. 30,1875.
Editor Oglethorpe Echo :
I arrived here last evening, and cannot
refrain from dropping you a line.
Augusta is, indeed, one of the loveli
est of our'Southern cities. It has been
many years since I visited the dear old
place, though I have met many familiar
faces, several of whom hailed from the
grand old county of Oglethorpe. This
city is noted for its pretty ladies, and
very deservedly so.
The merchants generally complain of
hard times. Some think business will
improve, and some think the worst is yet
to come.
The “ Augusta Exchange” is in a very
prosperous condition, under the manage
ment of a very efficient gentleman, as
sisted by a very polite and affable young
man, Mr. H. B. Campbell. Various es
timates as to what the present crop will
be are made.
I was directed to the place, where I
am stopping, which I found near the rail
road depot—the Mount Vernon House.
I met the proprietor, Mr. W. H. Guisen
daffer, and found him to be truly a real,
live Virginia gentleman, and knows how
exactly to give you an old Virginia wel
come. The reception room is elegantly
furnished, as is all the house. The table
is magnificent; the bill-of-fare cannot
be surpassed.
I will leave for Richmond to-night.
More anon. Schiller.
George Adair, Jr., charged with being
a leader in the Mountain Meadow Mas
sacre in 1855, has been arrested in Utah.
Has boasted, when drunk, of having
knocked infants’ brains out on wagons.
VOL II —NO. 11.
THE TABLES TURNED.
A Mothcr-in-Law Tells Her Experienec
with a Son-in-I.aw.
Hardroad, Dec. 10, 1875.
Editor Oglethorpe Echo:
I have seen so much recently in the
papers derogatory to mothers-in-law, I
beg space in your columns to give my
experience of a son-in-law.
I am a widow with one child, and
that a daughter. We were very happy
in our pretty little vine-covered cottage
till, in an unfortunate hour, I permitted
my daughter to introduce a son-in-law
to our hearth and home. The honey
moon was scarce over before he began to
assume undue authority in the house.
Nobody seemed to please him. lie wan
ted to make so many alterations and ad
ditions to our sweet little home, I verily
believe he would have pulled the house
down over my head, just to show his ar
chitectural taste in rebuilding it. lie
pretends to great taste and skill in that
art, and wanted to exercise it at my ex
pense. I said “ nay,” and stood firm.
I have been fortunate enough to retain
my good sense, which not one widow in
ten has ever done. When son-in-law
failed to carry out his grand ideas about
the improvement of the house, he became
so much chagrined that he took no no
tice of me except to read aloud in my
hearing those ugly things in the papers
about mothers-in-law. I heard them as
though I did not hear—said nothing,
but still pursued the even tenor of my
way.
When he became convinced that he
could effect nothing in that way, he
changed his tactics, and began to find
fault with the servants. The cook never
served up a dish as it should be. My
cook always stood at the head of the
culinary department, and I was noted
for my good table. I had a very smart
and faithful colored boy. He was a
splendid boot-black, but he never could
please son-in-law, no matter how hard
he tried. One morning he made extra
efforts to please, which delayed him a
few minutes longer than usual, and
when he carried up the boots, son-in-law
knocked him down with one of them.
He came crying to me, with the blood
streaming down his face, saying, “ I
won’t stay in dis house wid dat man—l
gwine away.” He had been with me
three years. I tried to bribe him to stay,
but he said if I would send “ dat man”
away he would never leave me. This
su og es f et l an idea to me, so the next mor
ning I gave son-in-law a check on the
bank for five thousand dollars, telling
him, at the same time, that I saw Marion
was not happy, and I thought if he
would get a house, and go to housekeep
ing, she would have something to inter
est her and she would be happier. He
thanked me, went out, drew the money,
invested it in cotton and lost all. About
this time I received a dispatch to go to
my sister, who was quite ill. I was ab
sent three weeks, and when I returned
my cook was gone, and a large, black,
greasy woman installed in her place,
with a troop of dirty little black imps
running and scampering over the house.
I left an ample supply of provisions to
last six months, but I found everything
had given out two days before my return.
Now, I saw plainly things could not
go on in this way. If they did, I would
soon be out of house and home. After
thinking over the matter, and seeing no
way to get rid of son-in-law, a happy
thought struck me—to rent out my house
and home. I mentioned it next morning
at breakfast, and son-in-law said it was
the very idea—he would take the house
and I must board with him. I was
struck dumb—my last hope was gone.
Now, Mr. Gantt, if you can suggest
a plan for my relief, you will place under
everlasting obligations an
Afflicted Mother-In-Law.
The Exploit of the Quail Eater.
[From the Madison (Ind.) Courier.]
About one year ago the Calhoun (Ky.)
Progress published the following: “We
are reliably informed that a purse of
$30,000 is offered by a company in Mad
isonville, Ky., to any man who will eat
thirty partridges in thirty day3, eating
one each day. The experiment has been
tried by several parties of that place, but
twenty-two is the highest number
reached. It appears singular, but it is
said that after a dozen birds have been
eaten the sight of one produces the vom
iting. The money is on deposit in the
bank of Madisonville. If the party fails
he is to forfeit $100.” This item went
the round of the press, and brought out
many comments upon the impossibility
of accomplishing the apparently easy
feat. The idea that it could be done be
came a conviction without proof in the
minds of many, like that one in regard
to a man weighing no more after eating
a heavy meal than before eating. Those
who seem best posted on the subject
were most eager to wager their funds that
it could not be done. One day last Oc
tober, James O’Donnell, in the presence
of ten or twelve persons, ate a large-sized
cream pie, on a trifling wager,in four
minutes and eight seconds, when Robert
R. Rea, N. Maccobbin and others who
witnessed the gormandizing were so im
pressed with his voracity and capacity
that they determined to give him a trial
on thirty quails in thirty days. Ar
rangements were made accordingly at
Mullen’s restaurant for the quails. A
committee was selected to witness the ea
ting, each evening at 7 o’clock, who were
to keep a record of each meal. During
the first few days of the test but few per
sons besides the committee witnessed the
“ exercises.” As O’Donnell progressed
in his undertaking, however, and became
the subject of comment from the press of
the cuuotry, the interest increased among
THE OGLETHORPE ECHO
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per inch. Announcements, $5, in advance.
the curious ; bets were made upon the
result in sporting circles in this ami ad
joining cities, and the restaurant con
tained a large number of spectators eve
ry evening. evening on the eating
of the thirtieth bird, the house was crow
ded. O’Donnel went at his task with his
wonted voracity. Those who had ex
pected him to fail on the last one, were
surprised at the apparent relish with
which he extinguished the fowl, and were
astonished to hear him call for another
“quail for good measure.” This was also
consumed. Then he called for a doten
steaming stewed oysters, and ate them.
Then, reaching over the table, be tackled
a piece of pie, which, in turn, went the
way of all the quails, and finished up
with a large apple. It is said that a
great deal of mouey changed hands upon
the result* but O’Donnell himself had no
money up. He received nothing for the
performance of this hitherto (said to be)
unparalleled feat but the quails, the noto
riety and about seven dollars contribu
ted by the crowd last night. He says
since the 20th bird was eaten, the birds
have had a wild, bitter taste, which
slightly increased up to the eating of the
thirtieth one, but this flavor produced
nothing like nausea. O’Donnell is of
Irish parentage, is twenty-eight years of
age, five feet and.seven inches in height,
weighed one hundred and sixty-three
pounds at the commencement of the task
and h:is lost hut three pounds since ; of
light or sandy complexion, and is u
blacksmith by trade. Dr. G. W. Lawder
has been his attending physician, and
many other medical and scientific stu
dents have watched the undertaking with
considerable interest.
Oglethorpe .Sheriff'* (tele.
WILL HE SOLD BEFORE THE COURT
House door, in the town of Lexington,
on the first TUESDAY in Jannary next, be
tween the lawful hours of sale, one tract of
land, in Oglethorpe county, containing Two
Hundred Acres, more or less, adjoining Wm.
A. Cunningham, J.T. Noell and others. Sold
as the property of B. T. Collins, to satisfy a fi.
fa. in favor of Ijewis J. Deupree vs. Beverly
T. Collins. Have given the notice required
by law. ($5)
AIAO,
At the same time and place will be sold the
interest of Robert Wise in a tract of Land in
Oglethorpe county, containing Six Hundred
and Ninety-six (696) Acres, more or less, ad
joining lands of J. H. Echols, M. L. Rains
and others, his interest being one-eighth in
terest at the death of his mother. Sold to sat
isfy a fi. fa. in favor of Wm. M. Lane vs. Rob
ert Wise as principal, and Benj. V. Willing
ham as endorser, and other fi. fas. in my
hands; and have given the notice required
by law. [ss]
J. T. JOHNSON, Sheriff.
This December 7,1875.
Oglethorpe Sheri ft'** Sale.
WILL BE SOLD ON THE FIRST
TUESDAY in January next, before
the Court House door, in the town of Lexing
ton, Oglethorjie county, within the legal hours
of sale, one tract of J .and, containing Nine
Hundred (900) Acres of land, more or less, in
said comity, adjoining lands of W. T. Coth
ran, A. T. Brightwell ami lands of John R.
Eidson and John A. Christopher and other*.
Levied on as the property of the defendant,
John R. Eidson, by virtue of a fi. fa. issued
from the Superior Court of said county, in fa
vor of S. It. Aycock vs. John R. Eidson, and
other fi. fas. in my hands against said John R.
Eidson. Said tract of land in possession of
Wm. Griffeth, John Slatohn and Joseph Eid
son , and have given the notice in writing re
quired by the statutes. [ss]
ALSO,
At the same time and place, Three Bales of
Cotton, levied on as the property of F. W*
Winfrey, by virtue of a fi. fa. issued from the
Superior Court of Oglethorpe county, in favor
of J. H. Wright & Cos. vs. F. W. Winfrey.
M. H. YOUNG, Dep’y Sheriff.
December 6, 1875. ($5)
Oglethorpe Sheriffs Sale.
WILL BE SOLD ON THE FIRST
Tuesday in January next, before the
Court House door, in the town of Lexington,
Oglethorpe county, within the legal hours of
sale, one tract of Land, containing One Hun
dred and Twenty-five (125) Acres, more or
less, in Oglethorpe county, adjoining lands of
T. Callahan, Joe Armstrong, J. L. Wilson
and others; and one Gin ami Running Gear.
(Ten acres of land immediately around and
including the dwelling-house is excepted in
the above levy and side. All levied on as the
property of C. I). Kinnebrew, and now in pos
session ot'Mrs. N. H. Kinnebrew, executrix of
C. D. Kinnebrew, deceased. Ami have given
the notice in writing required by the statute.
MACK H. YOUNG, Dep’y Sheriff.
December 6, 1875. [ss]
Administrator's Male of Land.
Georgia, Oglethorpe county.—
By virtue of an order from the Court of
Ordinary of said countv, will be sold before
the Court House door, m the town of Lexing
ton, Ga., between the legal hours of sale, on
the first TUESDAY in January, 1870, a tract
of LAND belonging to the estate of John
Eades, deceased, late of said county. Said
land lying in said county,and contains One
Hundred and Fifty-seven (157) Acres, more
or less, adjoining lands of Taylor Smith, J.
A. Broade, Rainy Eades and others. Of said
truct oi land, Seventy-five andone-fonrth(7s!)
Acres of the same has been assigned as Dower
to the widow of said John .Eades, and the re
version of which will lie sold at the time afore
said. Outside of the dower, ther • are Twenty
Acres of Original Woods. Sold for the bene
fit of the heirs and creditors of said deceased.
Terms cash. JAMES B. JOHNSON,
Adm’r, de bonis n. n, of John Eades, dee’d.
November 24th, 1875. [sl2]
OTATE OF GEORGIA, OGLETHORPE
IO COUNTY.—Application for Letters of Ad
ministration. Whereas, Thomas J. Edwards
applies to me for Letters of Administration,
de bonis non, with the will annexed, upon the
estate of Thomas Edwards, deceased, late of
said county—
These are, therefore, to cite all persons in
terested, to appear at my office, in Lexington,
Ga., on or before the first Monday in January,
1876, to show cause, if any they can, why
said Letters should not be granted.
Given under my hand and official signature,
at my office in Lexington, this November 3d,
1875. THOS. D. GILHAM,
($4) Ordinary.
State of Georgia, oglethorpe
COUNTY.—Application for Letters of
Administration. \\ hekeas, Emily S. Nich
ols applies to me for permanant Letters of
Administration on the Estate of W. L. Nich
ols, late of said county, deceased—
These are, therefore, to cite all persons in
terested to be and appear at my office, in Lex
ington, Ga., on or before the first Monday in
January, 1876, to show cause, if any they
can, why said Letters should not be granted.
Given under my hand and official signa
ture, at my office In Lexington, this Novem
ber loth, 1875.
(s4] THOS. D. GILHAM, Ordinary.
OTATE OF GEORGIA, OGLETHORPE
•O COUNTY.—Whereas, Isaac W. John
son, Jr., Administrator upon the estate of Mrs.
R. T. V. Johnson, deceased, l.as’applied to me
Tor leave to sell the land belonging to said de
ceased-
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish
all persons interested to be and appear at my
office, on the first Monday in January, 1876,
to show cause, if any the can, why said leave
should not be granted.
Given under mv hand and official signa
ture. this 30th day of Novein tier, 1875.
I3J f. D. GILHAM, Ordinary. •