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THE OGLETHORPE ECHO SUBSCRIPTION. ONE YEAR ft‘2 O© SIX MONTHS 1 of) THREE MONTHS 50 CLUB RATES. FIVE COPIES or less than 10, each... 1.75 TEN COPIES or more, each 1.50 Terms —Cash in advance. No paper sent Untii money received. All papers Mopped at expiration of time, unless renewed. 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. ®lje #gletl)®rj €djo. 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 ADVERTISEMENTS. First insertion (per inch space) $1 00 Each subsequent insertion. 75 A liberal discount allowed those advertising for a longer period than three months. Cam of lowest contract rate* can be had on appli cation to the Proprietor. Local Notices 15c. per line first insertion, and 10c. per line thereafter. Tributes of Respect, Obitnnries, etc., 50c. 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. •