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BIRDS of NO.V6,
HY KRAXK.
The lark and crow
Are not we know
With equal gifts en
dowed ;
The lark we greet,
For song so sweet —
The crowdings just as
loud.
By nature’s law
His dismal caw
He has the right to
sound,
Though with his
throat,
Or in his note
No music may be
found.
And so with men—
The poet’s |m-ii
Will write—yes, write
always,
And hours of light,
Or sorrow’s night.
Cannot suppress his
lays.
Wow want ami pain,
With diMtnnl train,
May enter his poor cot,
A CIIKIMMVS CUI.VE.
Hail 1 Father Christmas, hail!
By the holly round your head,
With its berries coral red,
And the ivy vine that grows
O’er your venerable nose,
And the winning smile that plays
On your linsof ancient days,
We’ll drink welcome to your coining
In cups of something humming—
Hail, Father Christmas, hail 1
Ho ! Father Christmas, ho !
There’s a twinkle in your eye
That means plainly—“ By-the-bye,
While the larder is complete
W’ith the best of Christmas meat,
And the cellar running o’er
With wines of brands a score,
Could one he so moan a sinner
As to grudge poor folks a dinner ?”
No, FatnerChristmas, no!
Ha! Father C’hrt strnas, ha!
Let us plot a little game,
If to you ’tis all the same,
llow the needy we can cheer
With beef, pudding and good beer,
And their children's hearts make merry
And their own divest of worry—
How shall we do this, how ?
Ah 1 1 think I have it, now;
Now, Father Christmas, now !
Here, Father Christmas, here!
Load up your six-horse wagon
With all that you can tag on,
From the larder and the cellar
Of every good out sheller,
And the purveyances hoarded
Of all who can afford it;
Then through the country rumble
Aud supply the poor and humble :
Go, Father Christmas, go!
mm* ■ ♦-fl -
There are 50,000 locomotives in the
world.
—— rntm
A negro recently died in Kentucky
who was born in 1700.
There are now in Plymouth Church
660 more females than males.
A lump of Australian gold, worth
about $35,000, will be exhibited at the
Centennial.
An explosion occurred at a colliery in
Yorkshire, England, on the 6th, in
which over 200 lives were lost.
urnm 9
The head of a turtle, for several days
after its separation from the body, retains
and exhibits animal life and sensation.
Another riot in Mississippi —at Roll
ing Fork, 25 miles above Vicksburg.
f>even negroes, including two leaders,
were killed.
An old maid near Reading, Pa., mar
ried a tramp, and perhaps that’s the best
use you can put a tramp to, alter all.
Two trees in Dennison, Texas, are
joined by a horizontal limb, and on that
natural gallows five men have been
lynched within ten years.
A horse race for $30,000 in gold took
place in San Fraucisco on thanksgiving
day. It would lie hard to persuade us
to stake that much on a horse race.
Much excitement is created at the
Cirque d’lliver, Paris, over a gymnast
who allows himself to be shot from a
mortar to the upper end of his trapeze
rope. _
The Marshal de Faber, at a siege, was
Eointing out a place with his finger. As
e spoke a musket ball carried off the
finger. Instantly stretching out auother
he continued his discourse, “ Gentlemen,
as I was saying”
When a French army officer is convic
ted of a felony his epaulettes are torn off,
his sword is broken and a private steps
from the ranks and kicks him. After
that the civil authorities take care of
him.
—m•
The latest freak of newspaper enter
prise exhibited by the New York Herald
is the organization of an expedition to
discover tne whereabouts of William M.
Tweed, the expedition including sceuts
on laud and steamtugs on water.
A Missouri gentleman has passed the
last forty-four years in the indeavor to
count two billions before he dies, and is
encouraged to hope that if it pleases
Providence to spare liis life for another
half century (he is only sixty-five) he
will be able to complete his task.
The Arizona Citizen says that there is
In that Territory a monster named Sher
idan who makes" it a business to entice
men to go with him to the mountains
upon a pretence of showing them rich
mines, and it is seldom that persons so
enticed are ever heard from afterward.
It is believed that he has lured away and
murdered eight victims within the past
year. Gov. Safford offers SSOO reward for
his capture and conviction.
The Democrats in Congress did a good
week’s work last week. They put a
guietus to the subsidy schemes of Tom
cott and others, and took the starch out
of the third termers. The resolution by
which all but eighteen of the Radicals
were forced to put themselves on record
against the third term movement will not,
perhaps, prevent Grant’s renomination
by his party, but will stultify many Rad
ical who would otherwise have taken, thes
stump for Grant’s re-election. Of course,
the negro members and the carpet-bag
gers voted against Springer’s anti-third
term resolution.
THE DARK HOUR.
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A CHRISTMAS STORY.
“ I can’t stand it any longer, Jane ; I’ll
go out, and perhaps something will turn
up for us.”
“ It’s a cold night, Robert.”
“ Cold, yes. But it’s not much colder
out than in. It would have been much
better for you if you had married John
Tremain,” he said, bitterly.
“ Don’t say that, Robert; I’ve uever
regretted my choice.”
“ Not even when there is not a loaf of
bread in the house for.you and the chil
dren ?”
Or purest joy,
Without alloy
Make >rla<l his earth
ly lot.
In brighter hours
Of birds ami flowers
How glad—how gay
his song;
In pleasant dream
Upon the stream
liis life-lwiat floats
along.
When imps of sin,
With horrid grin,
Molest his lonely way,
He still doth strive
With song to drive
The demons from his
way.
And though his
voice
Doth not rejoice,
Our hearts with music
flow—
Pray let him live,
And do not give
An insult to the crow.
“ Not even now, T> V-rt. Don’t be
discouraged. God-iias not forsaken us.
Perhaps this Christmas eve the tide will
turn ; better days may dawn upon us to
morrow.”
Robert Brice shook his head dispond
ingly.
“ You are more hopeful that I, Jane.
Day after day I have been in search of
employment. I have called at fifty pla
ces, only to receive the same answer eve
rywhere.”
Just then little Jimmy, who had been
asleep, woke up.
“ Mother,” he pleaded, “ Won’t you
give me a piece of bread ? lam so hun
gry.”
“ There is no bread, Jimmy, my dar
ling!” said the mother,"with an aching
heart.
“ When will there be some ?” asked
the little child, piteously.
Tears came to the mother’s eyes. She
knew uot what to do.
“ Jimmy, I’ll bring you some bread,”
said the father, hoarsely. .
And he seized his hat and went to the
door. His wife, alarmed, laid her hand
upon his sleeve. She saw the look in
his eyes ; she feared to what step desper
ation might lead him.
“ Remember, Robert,” she said, sol
emnly, “it is hard to starve; but there
are things that are worse.”
He shook of! her but not rough
ly, and, without a word, passed out.
Out in the cold streets 1 There would
be their only home next. For a brief
time longer he had the shelter of a cheer
less room in a cold lodging house, but
the rent woukl become due at the end of
the month, aud he had nothing to meet
Robert Brice was a mechanic, compe
tent and skillful. Three years since, he
lived in a country village where h’ ex
penses were moderate, and he found no
difficulty in meeting them. But in an
evil hour he grew tired of his village
home, and removed to the city. Here
he vainly hoped to do better. For a
while he met with very good success ;
but he found the lodging house in which
he bad io-liva a poor substitute for the
neat cottage he occupied in the country.
He saw his mistake, but was too proud
to go back, although it was his wife’s de
sire they should do so.
But a time of great depression came,
aud with it a suspension of business en
terprise. Work ceased for Robert Brice
and many others. If he had beeu in his
old home, he could have turned his hand
to something else, and, at the worst,
could have borrowed of his neighbors till
better times.
So day by day he went out to seek
work, only to return disappointed. If
he had been alone he could have got on
some way; but it was a sore trial to come
to the cheerless room and liis pale wife
and hungry children, with no relief to
offer them.
When on that Christmas eve Robert
Brice went into the .streets, he hardly
knew how he was going to redeem the
promise lie had made little Jimmy. He
was absolutely penniless, and had been
so for three days. There was nothing
that lie was likely to find to do that
night.
“ I will pawn my coat,” he said. “ I
cannot see my wife and children starve.”
It was a well-worn coat, and that win
ter night he needed something more to
keep him warm. Weakened by enforced
fasting, he was more sensitive to the cold,
and shivered au ue walked along the
pavement.
“ Yes,” he said, “my coat must go.
I know not how I shall get on without it;
but I cannot see the children starve be
fore my eyes.”
He was* not in general an envious man;
but when he saw the sleek, well-fed citi
zens, buttoned up to the throat in warm
overcoats, come out of brilliantly-lighted
shops, i vided with presents for happy
children at home while his were starving
he suffered some bitter thoughts upon
the inequality of fortune’s gifts to come
to his mind. Why should they be so
happy, while she was so miserable ?
There was a time, he remembered it
well, when he, too, suffered not the
Christmas eve to pass without buying
some little gifts for Jimmy and Agnes.
How little be dreamed that they should
ever want bread ?
There was one man, shorter than him
self, warmly clad, who passed him with
his hands thrust deep in the pockets of
his overcoat. There was a pleasant smile
upon his face. He was, doubtless, think
ing of the happy circle at home.
Robert knew him to be a rich cabinet
maker and upholsterer, whose ample
warehouse he often passed. He had ap
plied to this man only two days before
tor employment, and beeu refused. It
was, perhaps, the thought of the wide
difference between them, far as outward
circumstances were, that led Robert to
follow him.
After awhile the tradesman, Mr.
Grimes, drew his handkerchief from his
pocket. As he did so, he did not per
ceive that his pocketbook came with it,
and fell on the pavement. He did not
f>erceive it, but Robert did. His heatf
eaped into his mouth, and a sudden
thought entered his mind. He bent
quickly down and picked up the pocket
book. * He raised his eyes to see if the
movement was noticed. It was not.
Mr. Grimes went on, unheeding his loss.
“ This will buy bread for my wife and
children," thought Robert, instantly.
A vision of the comfort which the mon
ey would bring that cheerless room
lighted up his heart for an instant, but
then—for he was not dishonest—there
came another thought. The haoney was
not his, much as he wanted it.
“ But I cannot see my wife and chil
dren starve,” he thought again. “If it
is wrong to keep the money, God will
pardon the offense. He will understand
my motive.”
All this was sophistry, and he knew it.
In a moment he felt it to be so. There
were some things worse than starvation.
!)c ©gletijtrpc fffdje.
BY T. L. GANTT.
CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 24, 1875.
It was his wife who said this just before
he came out. Could he meet her gaze
when he returned with food so obtained?
“ I’ve lived honest so far,” he thought;
“ I won’t turn thief now.”
It was with an effort he came to this
decision, for all the while there was be
fore his eyes that vision of a cheerless
home, and he could hear Jimmy vainly
.asking for food. It was with an effort
that he stepped forward and placed his
hand upon the tradesman’s shoulder and
extended the hand that held the pocket
book.
“ Thank you,” said Mr. Grimes, turn
ing round ; “ 1 hadn’t perceived loss.
I am much obliged to you.”
“ Y'ou have reason to be,” said Robert,
in,a low voice. “ I was very near keep
ing it.”
“That would have been dishonest,”
said Mr. Grimes, his tone altering
slightly.
“ Yes, it would ; but it is hard to be
honest when one is penniless, aud his
wife and children without a crust.”
“ Surely you and your children are
not in that condition ?” said the trades
man, earnestly.
“ Yes,” said Robert, “it is only too
true. For two months I have vainly
sought for work. I applied to you two
days since.”
“ I remember you now. I thought I
had seen you before. You still want
work.”
“ I should feel grateful for it.”
“My foreman left me yesterday. Will
you take his place at s2s* a week ?”
“Thankfully, sir; I would for half
that.”
“ Then come to-morrow morning, or
rather, a3 to-morrow will be a holiday,
the day succeeding. Meantime, take
this for your present necessities.”
He drew from his pocket some notes,
and handed them to Robert.
“ Why, you have given me thirty dol
lars !” said Robert, in amazement.
“ I know it. The pocketbook contain
ed five thousand dollars. But for you, I
should have lost the whole. I wish you
a merry Christmas.”
“It will, indeed, be a merry Christ
mas,” said Robert, with emotion. “Heav
en bless you, sir! Good night.”
“ Good night.”
*****
Jennie waited for her husband in the
cold aud cheerless room, which for a few
days longer she might call her home.
An hour passed; there was a step on the
stairs—her husband’s. It could not be,
for this was a cheerful, elastic step, com
ing up two steps at a time. She looked
eagerly to the door. Yes, it was he.
The door opened. Robert, radiant with
joy, entered with a basket full of substan
tial provisions.
“Have you got any bread, father?”
asked Jimmy, hopefully.
“ Yes, Jimmy, some bread and meat
from a cook’s shop • and here’s a little
tea and sugar. Therms a few coals left.
Let’s have a bright fire and a comforta
ble meal, for, please God, this shall be a
merry Christmas.”
“How did it happen? Tell me, my
husband I”
So Robert told his wife; and soon a
bright fire lit up the before cheerless
room, and there were four happy hearts
that waited in joyous hope of the dawn
of a “ merry Christmas day.”
The next week they moved to better
rooms. They have never since known
what it is to want. Robert found a firm
friend in Mr. Grimes, and has an ac
count in the savings bank, and has rea
son to remember, with a grateful heart,
God’s goodness on that Christmas Eve.
The Dutchman’s Catechism.
We fihd oud by dor book dot Adam (I
forgot his oder name) vos de firstes man.
Eve vos der next. Yon day dey got
drubbled about eading some gwiuces and
vos kicked oud of der garten.
Cain and Abies vos de firstes children.
Cain got mad und put ahead on his brud
der, und den lited oud. He vos von pad
poy.
Yonah vos a fishmaker. Von day he
gone to der fishpont to cotch shrimps,
und ven he vos looking for bait he valked
right avay on a whale’s mout in. But
der whale make him pooty quick valk
oud again. He vos too strong mit der
fish’s stumix.
Solomon knew more as everybody. He
done vood cut a little poy into bieces to
seddle a disturbance mit two gals. He
said it vos pedder to go de whole hog or
none.
Sam’s son (I doud forgot liis mudder’s
name) vos de sthrongest. He vos a bruis
er. He got tighten mit dozen fellows,
und cleaned them all out mit a shackass
bone.
Yobe vos de pashentest man. You
could stick pins in him all tay und he
vouldn’t holler.
Merdoslum vos der oldest granfader
ve got dose times. He colud tole you
all apout it.
Lazarus vos der poor man. Dey don’t
gife no free lunches in does times, und he
vos alvays skirmishing aboud for grumbs.
Yosepk’s pig brudders got ycllous of
him because he vore a sphodded goat und
sold him for twenty tollars. After avile
he gife um sum ears und made
it all right.
What I Have Seen.
Someone who has seen a goodly share
of the world tells snine things he has
seen.
I have seen a young man sell a good
farm, turn merchant, and die in an insane
asylun.
I have seen a farmer travel about so
much that there was nothing at home
worth looking after.
I have seen a man spend more money
in folly than would support his family
in comfort and independence.
I have seen a young girl marry a young
man of dissolute habits and repent it as
long as she lived.
I have seen a man depart from truth
where candor and veracity would have
served him to a much better purpose.
I have seen the extravagance and folly
of children bringing their parents to
poverty and want, and themselves to
disgrace.
I have seen a prudent and industrious
wife retrive the fortunes of a family when
herhusband pulled at the other end of
the rope.
1 have seen a young man who despised
the counsels of the wise and advice of
the good, and his career ended in poverty
and wretchedness.
The centennial of the battle of Fort
Moultrie, fought on the twenty-eighth of
June, 1776, is to be celebrated by the
Palmetto Guard of South Carolina by
peeling a $12,000 monument.
Marriages of Great Men.
Byron married Miss Milbank to get
money to pay his debts. It turned out
a bad shift.
Robert Burns married a farm girl with
whom he tell in love while they worked
together in a plouged field. He was
irregular in his life and committed the
most serious mistakes in conducting his
domestic afiairs.
Milton married the daughter of a coun
try squire, but lived with her but a short
time. He was an austere, literary recluse
while she was a rosy, romping country
lass* that could not endure the restraint
imposed upon her, so they separated.
Subsequently, however, she returned, and
they lived together happy.
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were
cousins, and about the only example in
the long line of English monarchy where
in the married vows \vere*&&redly observ
ed, and sincere affection existed.
Shakespeare loved and wedded a
farmer’s daughter. She was faithful to
her vows, but we could hardly say the
same of the bard himself. Like most of
the great poets, he showed too little dis
crimination in bestowing hia affection on
the other sex.
Washington married ft woman with
two children. It is enouJ& to say she
was worthy of him, and Mhey lived as
married folks should live-in perfect
harmony.
John Adams married the daughter of
a Presbyterian clergyman. Her father
objected, on account of John being a
lawyer—be had a bad opinion of the
morals of the profession.
John Howard, the great philanthopist,
married his nurse. She was altogether
beneath him in soeial life and intellectual
capacity, and besides this, was fifty-two
years old, while he was only twenty-five.
He would not take “ no” for his answer,
and they were marred and lived happily
together until she died, which occurred
two years afterwards.
Peter the Great, of Russia, married a
peasant. She made an excellent wife
and a sagacious Empress.
Humbolt marred a poor girl because
he loved her. Of course they were
happy.
It is not generally known that Andrew
Jackson married a lady whose husband
was still living. She was an uneducated
but amiable woman, and was most de
votedly attached to the old warrior and
statesman.
John C. Calhoun married his cousin
and their children fortunately were
neither diseased nor idiotic, but they do
not evince the talent of the great State
Right’s advocate.
Virginia city Fire.
The California papers contains a great
many interesting minor incidents of the
fire at Virginia City. For instance, think
of the bgrkeepeii of a salafcn getting X
hot safe out of the ashes containing all
the money of a large gambling establish
ment, besides .much valuable jewelry,
and absconding with itl He hasn’t
since been heard of, nor has the safe.
Those who saw him at work presumed
that being an employe of the establish
ment it was all right. Yet another in
cident was Whitman had
just completed a neto residence at a cost
of $25,000 aud furnished it in a very ex
pensive way. He was just about to move
into bis new home, of which there is
nothing now left except the front steps!
An undertaker fought the flames until
his face and arms were burned in the
offort to remove two corpses from his
ware-room. He saved the dead, and
that was all from his establishment.
While the city was wrapped in a sheet
of flame, a woman passed out of a sea of
fire; around her neck hung the frame of
a lookiug-glass, and in her arms she bore
a wash-tub. She cried to a man whom
she met, “O, Mister! help me carry this
tub.” But ivhen she added, “ I’ve got in
here five of the finest bull pups you ever
saw,” the gentleman merely remarked,
“ Confound your bull pups; we’ve got
dogs enough in this town ;” and left her
to struggle up the burning street with
her tub of puppies.
First Impressions in a Balloon.
From a lecture by Professor Wise on
ballooniHg we copy the following : The
impressions of a first ascension were very
striking. It is like the earth falling
away from the balloon. There is no ver
tigo : but the earth sinks, becomes flat
tened in appearance and finally concave.
The position of the balloon seemed to be
between too concavities. The prismatic
effects produced by refraction are very
beautiful; fairy scenes present them
selves, and the mind becomes aroused to
the glorious privileges it enjoys. To
look down through the broken eiouds was
to witness a sight surpassing in beauty
the magic caves described inibyVArabi
au Nights Entertainments.” xhe pro
found, solemn, and awful stillness which
prevailed above the clouds was also re
markable. Even while moving at the
rate of a mile per minute, the aeronaut
seemed so utterly becalmed that a sus
pended cobweb moving with the balloon
would not be agitated. In rpeaking of
echo and ozone in the clouds, Professor
Wise said the reverberations of sound
among clouds were tremendous ; and in
explaining the echo which exists among
them, he told a story of a conversation
which he had with himself, instead of a
person upon the earth, as he at first sup
posed.
Mot ion In the Keeljr Motor.
There was a movement in the Keely
motor business yesterday. It was the
day of the annual election of directors
by the stockholders, of whom there are
115 on the roll, having 20,000 shares, of
a “ face” value of SSO a share, distribu
ted among them, and held about half
and-half in New York city and in Phil
adelphia. After electing eleven directors
and hearing the reports of the present
condition of the machine the party took
carriages and drove out to Keely’s work
shop, where they inspected the new gen
erator. It weighs two tons, and is made
of phosphor bronze, an Austrian gun
metal, and will, according to Keely, be
able to generate 38,000 pounds pressure
to the square inch. The new receiver, a
perfect sphere thirty inches interior and
forty-two inches exterior diameter, weigh
ing seven thousand pounds, cast in steel,
aud taking four days to cool and thirteen
days to be decarbonized, will also be re
ceived in about a week. Then, in about
three months, the Keely motor will be
ready to split ships in two, drive engines
to New York and back on a pint of wa
ter, etc.— Philadelphia Timet.
Cotton goods are now said to be lower
in price now than for the last 17 years.
DEVILTRIES.
Th Rsclrnt, Latest anti Bent Wltlrlsms.
—The editor of a Georgia paper wants
an intelligent boy. He will probably be
mad if it’s a girl.
—There is no special style of engrav
ing engagement rings. A spider’s web,
with a fly in it, is a pretty device.
Rhyming matches bid fair to sup-
Slant the spelling matches of last season,
live us a rhyme to silver, will you?
—Blind Tom, the pianist, wants to
marry a colored woman in Baltimore,
but she is also blind. At least she can’t
see it.
—Editors have stopped shirring pull
backs, but striped stockings claim a good
share of their attention—especially on
windy days.
—An Englishman ate up his money on
his death-bed, so that his friends couldn’t
eet it, but la! didn’t they post mortem
him mighty quick!
■ —“ Button parties are popular in the
West. We do not know whence they
derived their name, unless it’s because
they’re sure to come off.
—A girl fell down and died in the
midst of a waltz, in Chelsea, Mass ; and
the Chelsea preachers did not miss their
chance the next Sunday.
—Never take “ Come and see me” as
a phrase meant in earnest unless it be
accompanied with a date. Such an in
vitation amounts to nothing at ail.
—“ I want a servant girl,” says a Phil
adelphia advertiser, “ wfeo is a sincere
Christian and who won’t burn the meat
all up.” He’d better send liis order to
Heaven.
—The young man who stepped on a
banana peel and slipped and fell discov
ered anew planet. After completing his
astronomical labors, he instantly named
it “ Dammit.”
—An orator recently said to his audi
ence : “ I am speaking for the benefit of
posterity,” when someone shouted:
“ Yes, and if you don’t get through soon
they’ll be here 1”
—The Marquis of Conti recently fell
dead while kissing a Countess. It’s an
exceptional case, however, and there’s
no use in getting excited about it. Bring
on your Countesses.
—The softer sex has reason to feel en
couraged. The last census showed the
number of idiots proper in the United
States to be 24,527, of whom 14,485 were
males and 10,042 females.
—A man took off his coat to show what
a terrible wound he had received some
years past. “Oh,” said he, not being
able to find it, “ I remember now—it was
on my brother Bill’s arm.”
—A five-year girl had her hair cut a
few’‘days ago, ana was seen digging a
hole in the garden, and on being asked
what she was doing said : “ I’m plant
ing this hair to make a little child grow.”
—A lady applying for admission to the
junior class of an eastern seminary, be
ing questioned by the President as to her
qualifications, replied: “ I ain’t much of
an arithmeticker, but I am an elegant
grammarist.”
—A clairvoyant trio, two women and
a man, have been traveling in the South,
pretending to cure epizootic by the lay
ing on of hands. They practiced on a
mule in Kentucky the other day, and the
firm was instantly dissolved.
—They tell of a Kentucky schoolmas
ter who had his wife for a pupil, and
found it necessary to chastise her one
day. Next clay a notice appeared on the
door saying : “ School closed for two
weeks—schoolmaster is ill.”
—A colored woman in Macon wrote to
her husband in South Carolina : “You
rote me word 3 r ou was cornin’ hum soon,
and you hav not kim. So lam korting
now ; I am goin’ to git marrid, and goin
awa frurn Georgy. I remane yure wife.”
—When is a lady’s dress like an un
fortunate bull-fighter? When it is gored.
And when is it like a partisan ? When
it is biased. And when it is like a to
per? When it is full. And when is it
like the sails of a ship? When it is
trimmed.
—“ My dear,” said an affectionate hus
band, “ I’m surprised that you will con
sent to the degradation of wearing an
other woman’s hair on your head.” “Is
it any worse than wearing another sheep’s
wool on your back ?” retorted the equally
affectionate wife.
—Drummers, to prevent hotel propri
etors from pasting their advertisements
upon their trunks, now have painted on
the end of the trunk the following: “Be
low will be found the cards of all the
second-class hash houses in the country.”
It operates successfully.
—An economical bridal couple at
Springfield, Mo., partook of the wedding
feast, composed of smoked herring, crack
ers and cheese, spread out on the head of
a barrel in the street. A meddlesome
crowd around was dispersed by the bride,
who exclaimed: “What’n the thunder
you looking at, you durned feols ?”
—Last week a Riverhead tradesman
who failed in business proposed to settle
his liabilities on the basis of thirty cents
on the dollar. The offer was accepted
by all his creditors except one, aud
meeting this unaccommodating person
in the street the bankrupt remarked with
dignity that rather than have any troub
le he would pay the whole amount “ out
of his own pocket.”
—The young man who wants to know
if it is improper for him to offer a young
lady his arm when walking with her is
informed that it is not at all improper.
But it would be the height of impolite
ness to offer her your foot, or a chew of
tobacco, or a rum punch, or a fine-tooth
corub, bra dried cod-fish, or a baby’s
cradle, or another girl’s likeness. We
beg you not to do any of these things as
you might seriously offend her.
—A young man in Chicago, possessing
a wide circle of fashionable acquaintan
ces, has set up in business as a fashiona
ble introducer. For a fee varying in
amount from $5 to SSO he will introduce
young women to the fellows they are
just dying to know, or for a similar
amount, with a per centage if anything
cemes of it, he will make young men
acquainted with the idols they have at a
distance adored. He is also prepared,
with neatness and dispatch, to advance
the suits of customers, or to set back
rivals, with innuendoes as to their char
acter and connections, and hopes by a
strict attention to business to merit the
further confidence and orders of those
who have been pleased to patronize him
in the past.
VOL II —NO. 12.
X®* Her Fault,
The other day when a Detroit woman
asked her husband to bring home a bar
of soap as he came to dinner he exclaim*
ed:
“ M hat! is that bar gone so quick.”
“ It’s all gone,” she replied, “ but I
was as saving as I could be. I haven’t
washed the children for five days past, so
as to make it hist the week out !”
A Woman Bjiiig of a Broken Heart.
The funeral ceremonies of the late
James Atkins, which were to have taken
pjace in his residence in Bergen Heights,
N. J., were postponed by the tragic
death of his wife, who, while preparing
herself in her bedroom for the cerenio
nies in the parlor, fell dead on the floor.
The medical investigation which follow
ed resulted in the discovery that she
died of a ruptured blood vessel near the
heart, and had literally died of a broken
heart from excessive grief. Mrs. Atkins
had about two weeks ago, been called
from Canada to attend the suddeu illness
of her husband.
Having 1 and Naviiig.
A Chicago man writes : A man must
not think of beginning at the top round
to climb a ladder. Where would Chica
go be to-day if it cost every family $1,200
or even S6OO a year to live ? Why, the
prairies from here to Chicago would
still be uncultivated, and the wild buffa
lo still roaming over them. To my cer
tain knowledge, a large majority of the
land-owners in northern Pennsylvania
have labored for as low wages as' twelve
dollars per month. Now, from my ex
perience and observation, the best way
for a young man to save money to sup
port a wife is first to have one to help
him, provided he can get a frugal, sensi
ble one.
A Shower of Money.
# Says the Boston Journal : The servant
firl of a family living near the depot of
’ranklin, Mass., was hanging out clothes
near the house one windy' morning re
cently, when she saw a shower of twenty
five cent script flying in the air. She
did her best in scrambling for it, and suc
ceeded in getting $23. Other people
near at hand, learning of the affair, suc
ceeded in finding S2O more. The money
was all fresh from the treasury, having
never been in circulation before. Three
bands were found, two of them marked
as containing $lO each, and the other
having contained S6O. There was a pile
of boards near bv, and it is supposed that
the money had been stolen and placed
there, and the wind removed it from the
place of deposit.
#• —i _
CJnme for Young Foil**.
Two players are closely blindfolded with
a bandage made of their pocket handker
chiefs. Each one is provided with a sau
cer ful* of cake or cracker crams, which
is held in their left hand, and a spoon
which is held in the right hand. A
sheet is spread upon the floor, upon
which the players sit, and at a given sig
nal they begin to feed each other. Their
efforts to find each other’s mouths with
their spoons never fail to afford much
sport
Another amusing experiment is to try
to blow out a candle blindfolded. The
candle is placed upon a table, up to
which the player is first led; he then
walks six steps, turns around threetimes,
and walks forward as nearly in the direc
tion of the candle as possible, and tries
to blow it out. If he happens to wander
to a w rong part of the room, the effect of
the blowing is very funny.
A Bold Child.
The Troy (N. Y.) Whig says: A
day or two since one of our townsmen
was engaged in painting the roof of his
dwelling house. A sixteen foot ladder
stood up against the house, the top of
which projected about a foot and a half
above the eaves. While busily engaged
at work he was startled by hearing a
childish voice say: “ Papa, me up
high.” Looking up, to his horror and
astonishment, he saw his little two-year
o and boy standing on the eaves of the
house, with one hand on a rrund of the
ladder. For a moment he hesitated as to
what he should do, but finally he spoke
quietly to the boy, telling him to stay
there and papa would tome and get him.
The boy obeyed, and tbe anxious father
reached him and taking him in his arms
descended the ladder. He did not paint
any more that morning. How the child
managed to climb the ladder to the roof
and then step off on the eaves and turn
round and take hold of the ladder, all
without falling, is a mystery.
The Earth'* Danger,
In the preface to his recent excellent
book, “The Abode of Snow,” Andrew
Wilson, well known as the author of one
of the most interesting works on the Chi
nese Empire, revives the old theory of
M. Adhema that the earth will topple
over one of these days and send the
oceans sweeping over the continents.
The theory is that owing to the greater
preponderance of water in the Southern
hemisphere, the greater, accumulation of
water is around the South Pole; when
the accumulation has reached a certain
point the balance of the earth must be
suddenly destroyed—the centre of spher
icity will abruply change far from the
centre of gravity, and the whole earth in
stantaneously must turn transversely on
its axis, move the great oceans, and so
produce one of those grand cataclysms
which have before now altered the
whole face of the globe.
A Sad Romance in Real Life.
Jessie Spencer is one of our colored
citizens. Born in slavery, he was,through
the kindness of his master, manumitted
at the age of twenty-one. But Jessie
married a slave girl, and here was the
source of his trouble. Three children
were born of this marriage, and the con
dition following that of the mother, they
were held as slaves. Jessie worked and
purchased the freedom of the eldest, and
bargained for the freedom of the other
two children and his wife. The sum de
manded ($1,500) looked like a mountain
of money to poor Jessie, and he turned
his eyes to California with the same hope
of sudden wealth which had lured so
many hither. Jessie crossed the plains
in 1852, and the year following received
a letter from his wife stating that she
had escaped from the house of bondage,
and with her two youngest children had
reached that haven of the colored race,
the Canadas. Shortly after receiving the
letter Jessie’s cabin, with its contents,
were destroyed by fire, and the address
from which it was written in Canada lost.
Nor from that day to this has Jessie been
able to find a clew to the whereabouts of
his wife or children. — California paper.
THE OGLETHORPE ECHO
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Tkkms—Cash in advance. No [taper sent
until money received.
All papers ttopjxd at expiration of time;
unless renewed.
TAKE NOTICE!
THE COMMISSIONERS APPOINTED
having viewed and marked out the New.
Road from Center Church to Greensboro’
Rad, near Moody’s Grave Yard, and report
ed that they find the same of public utility,
said Road to run ns it does now—
This is to notify all [>ersons that on and after
the 20th day of January, eighteen hundred
and seventy-six, said New Road will be finally
granted and opened as one of the Public
Roads of OglethorjH' county, if no good cause
is shown to the contrary.
By Order of the Board of Commissioners of
Roads and Revenues.
This December 11th, 1875.
decl7-4t GEO. 11. LESTER, Clerk.
Georgia, Oglethorpe County. )
Ordiiuiry’n Ojfice V
December loth, 1875. j
Efoma C. Christopher, wife of Burrell A.*
Christopher, her husband refusing to my jfiy;
has applied for Exemption of Personalty
under the Homestead Act of 1868 ; and I will
pans upon the same at 11 o'clock n. m., on the
28th day of December, 1875, at my office.
[s2] TIIOS. D. GILIIAM, Ordinary.
STATE OF GEORGIA, OGLETHORPE
COUNTY.—Application for Letters of Ad
ministration. Whereas, Thomas J. Edwards
applies to me for Letters of Administration,
dc 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 Novetnlier 3d;
1*75. THOS. D. GILIIAM,
($4) Ordinary.
STATE OF GEORGIA, OGLETHORPE
COUNTY.—Application for Letters of
Administration. M nERKAS, Emily S. Nich
ols applies to me for permanant Letters of
Administration ou the Estate of W. L. Nich-'
ols, late of said county, deceased—
These are, therefore, to cite all persons ia- J
teres ted to be and appear at my office, in Lex
ington, Ga., on or before the first Monday ia
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 NoTcm
her 15th, 1875.
[*4] THOS. D. GILHAM, Ordinary.
STATE OF GEORGIA, OGLETHORPE
COUNTY.—Whereas, Isaac \V. John-'
son, Jr ; , Administrator upon the estate of Mrs-
R. T. V. Johnson, deceased, to m
for leave to sell the land belonging to said de
ceased-
Tliesc are ; therefore, to cite and admonish
all persons interested to be and appear at ray
office, on the first Monday in Jnnuary, 1876,
to show cause, if any the can, why said Uav®
should not be granted.
Given under my hand and official sign a-'
tnre, this 30th day of November, 1875.
[s3] T. D. GILHAM, Ordinary.
STATE OF GEORGIA, OGLETHORPE
COUNTY. —Petition for Letters of Guar-'
diunship. Wherras, Isaac \V. Jyiuivon,
Jr., has applied this Jay to me, by written pe
tition, for Letters of Guardianship of the per
son and property of Valentine W. Johnson.,
minor child of said Isaac W. Johnson, of sail?
county—
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish*
all persons interested to be and appear at my
office 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 office in Lexington, the 30th day of No
vember, 1876. THOS. D. GILHAM,
[s4] Ordinary.
Administrator’s Male of Land.
GEORGIA, OGLETHORPE COUNTY.—
By virtue of an order from the Court of
Ordinary of said county, will be sold be for®
the Court House door, in the town of Lexing-'
ton, Ga., between the legal hours of sale, on l
the first TUESDAY in January, 1876, a tract
of LAND belonging to the estate of John*
Fades, 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 Earles and others. Of said
tract ot land, Seventy-five andoue-fourth(7si)
Acres of tiie same lias been assigned as Dower'
to the widow of said John Eades, and the re-'
version of which will be sold at the time afore
“haid. Ontside of the dower, ther.i are Twenty
Acres of Original Woods. Sold for the bene- -
tit of the heirs and creditors of said deceaseds
Terms cash. JAMES B. JOHNSON,
Adm’r, de bonis m n, of John Fades, dee’d,
November 24th, 1875. [sl2]
Oglethorpe Sheriff’s Sale.
WILL BE SOLD BEFORE THE COURT
House door, in the town of Lexington,
on the first TUESDAY in J;t inary 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. Noel! and others. Sokf
as the property of B. T. Collins, to satisfy a IS,
fa. in favor of Lewis J. Deupree vs, Beverly
T. (1 tins. Have given the notice required
by law. ($5)
At-so,
At the same time and place will be sold th®
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. 11. Echols, M. L. Rain®
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. fits, in my
hands; and have given the notice require*
bv law. fss]
J. T. JOHNSON, Sheriff.
This December 7, J 875.
- ■ - - ■ -
Oglethorpe Sheriff’* Nixie.
AY TILL BE SOLD ON THE FIRST
YV TUESDAY in January next, befor®
the Court House door, in the town of Lexing
ton, Oglethorpe county, within the legal hour®
of sale, one tract of Land, containing Nina
Hundred (900) Acres of land, more or leva, in
said county, adjoining lands of W. T. Coch
ran, A. T. Brightwell and lands of John K,
Eidson and John A. Christopher and other*.
Levied on as the'property of thft defendant.
John R. Eidson, by virtue of a fi. fa. issued
from the Sujierior Court of said county, in fla
vor of S. R. Aycock vs. John R. Eidson, and
other fi. fas. in iny hands against said John B,
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.
ALSO,
At the same time and place, Three Bale* of
Cotton, levied on as the property of F. W-
Winfrev, by virtue of a fi. fa. issued from th®
Superior Court of Oglethorpe countv, in fav®r
of J. H. Wright &Cos. vs. F. W. Winfrey.
M. 11. YOUNG, Dep’y Sheriff,
December 6, 1875. ($5)
Oglethorpe NherilT’t* Sale.
WILL BE SOLD ON THE FIRST
Tuesday in January next, before tbe
Court House door, in the town of Lexington,
Oglethorpe eounty, within the legal hour* of
sale, one tract of Land, containing Oue Hun
dred and Twenty-five (125) Acres, more ®f
less, in Oglethorpe eounty, adjoining lands of
T. Callahan, Joe Armstrong, J, L. Wilson
and others; ami one Gin and Running Gear,
(Ten acres of land immediately around and
including the dwelling-house w excepted in
the above levy and sale. All levied on as th®
property of C. D. Kiunebrew, and now in pos
session of Mrs. N. 11. Kinnebrew, executrix of
C. D. Kinnebrew, deceased. And have given
the notice in writing required by the statot®,
MACK H. YOUNG, Dep’y Sheriff,
December 6, 1875, [ssl