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A PRAYER,
BY FRANK. "— 1
commands I ever
obey, .
lleat me now—on bended knee I humbly try
to pray—
So bitter is my anguish, my tears now wildly
start-
Unclean ! unclean ! a leprosy within my very
heart.
The Spirit's chidings and Thy word 1 set
aside as nought,
While in Thy vineyard here below my hands
have never wrought.
All mnuiter of unholy thought dwells in my
sinful mind,
While to the good that I could do 1 evermore
was blind.
The love which would my brother bless to
him 1 ha.vc not given,
Nor led one sorrowing heart to look for joy
and rest in Heaven. -
No tearful widow’s thanks—nor orphan**
smile I claim—
My hidden talent, from Hie dust, I bring to
Thee with shame.
But Oh ! dear God, whose glorious name has
power on earth to bless,
Look on Thy trembling creature now, and
pity my distress!
The east wind and the north wind, through
all my life has blown—
N( peace —no rest—no happiness—my heart
has ever known.
Affection’s flowers have held for me a sharp,
a piercing thorn—
The human hearts I trusted in have turned
away in scorn.
I dwell not in fair Beulah’s land, I hear no
singing bird,
And to my lonely listening ear there comes
no gentle word.
I’m poor, I’m weak, I’m desolate! Upon my
bended knee
I raise to Heaven my tearful eyes—Dear Fa
ther, pity me!
Pity me—and pitying help, the weary load
remove
From my poor soul, and draw my heart to
thee with tender love.
Give me by faith to view the One—“ The
Lamb for sinners slain,”
41 Who trod the here alone,” and
bore for us the pain.
Waaitfor me? Havel apart in Ilis dear
flowing blood ?
Oh! may I come, through Ilim, to Thee, my
Father and my God ?
" The sinner vile he bids to come”—Oh, sure
ly such am I!
” He is the truth —His word is life —He will
not let me die /”
For those who in Him trust, “ lie has pre
pared a home” —
His promise true why should I doubt? Oh !
Jesus, let me come !
THE CLOSIM TEAR.
UY GEOKyK I). PRENTICE.
’Tis midnight's holy hour—mid silence now
Is brooding like a gentle spirit, o’er
The still and pulseless world. Hark I on the
winds
The bell’s deep notes arc swelling. ’Tis the
knell
Of the departing year.
No funeral train
Is sweeping past; yet on the stream and wood,
With melancholy past; the moonbeams rest,
Like u pale, spotless shroud ; the air is stirred
As by a mourner’s sigh ; and on yon cloud,
That floats so still and placidly through
heaven,
The spirits of the seasons seem to stand—
Young Spring, bright Summer, Autumn’s
solemn form,
And Winter with his aged locks—and breathe
In mournful cadences, that come abroad
Like the fur-wind harp’s wild and touching
wail,
A melancholy dirge o’er the dead year,
Gone from the earth forever.
* * * * * *
Remorseless Time!
Fierce spirit of the glass and scythe—what
power
Can stay him in his silence course, or melt
His iron heart to pity ? On, still on
lie presses, and forever.
* * * * * *
Revolutions sweep
O’er earth, like troubled visions o’er the breast
Of dreaming sorrow; cities rise and sink,
Like bubbles on the water; fiery isles
Spring, blazing, from the ocean, and go hack
To their mysterious caverns; mountains rear
To heaven their bald and blackened clitfs,
and bow
Tlieir tali heads to the plain ; new Empires
rise,
Gathering the strength of hoary centuries,
And rush down like the Alpine avalanche,
Startling the nations, and the very stars,
Yon bright ami burning blazonry of God,
Glitter awhile in their eternal depths.
And, like the Pleiad, loveliest of their train,
Shoot from their glorious spheres and puss
away. *
To darkle in the trackless void ; yet Time,
Time, the tomb-builder, holds his fierce career.
Dark, stern, all pitiless, and pauses not
Amid the mighty wrecks that strew his path,
To sit and muse, like other conquerors,
Upon the fearful ruin he has wrought.
A Shrewd Woman.
The Liverpool Steam Packet Company
wanting to extend its premises, decided
to purchase adjoining land, which was
owned by a maiden lady of uncertain
age. The lady sold the land cheap', but
caused to be Inserted in the agreement
an article to this effect, that during her
lifetime she and a lady companion should
have the privilege of traveling free in any
of the company's vessels. The day after
the agreement was signed she sold her
house and furniture, and, having found
a companion, went on board of one of
the company’s steamers, iust about to saii
for Soutn America; ana from that time
to this she has lived at sea and at the
company's expense. She advertises for
•o&e lady who wishes to make the voyage
as her companion, and who pays her
fiure, and in this way, it is said, has al
ready accumulated about ten thousand
dollars. The company have offered her
more than this to cancel the agreement,
but this she refuses to do, and as the life
at sea suits her health remarkably, there
is no present prospeot that her voyage
will soon come to an end.
||A representative of the Rome, Ga.,
Commercial overheard an industrious
colored citizen of that town thus com
plain: “Nebjritiseed sieh times since I
been born. ’SC*all day and steal all
night, and blest it I can hardly make a
\ivip’.”
A Western exchange says: Alexander
btephens has been confined to his bed
during the last few days. They put a
paper weight on him, yet his head and
feet flutter in the draught every time
the door, is opened.
fflll €d)o.
. - ‘/■ /.Hi; ' I /
BY f. L. GAHTT.
REVELS. ■ ■
Rw tetter of flit Chlorixl Ex-Senator
“ IFnin nisftlMhtpi to President Uraut
--The Minor HA<t
The foHowmg -is flubHsliT?d*to-day ak
tlio most comcan be
made to the allegatjpp of Qtoedv-Shirt
Morton, and should bijiead fti the'Senate
in response to any he makes in
regard to Mississippi : ‘ -
lloljly Springs,’November 6, 1875.
7b lip Excellency, U. & Grout, Prtmdent of
thq'Umted Slates-:
My Dear Sir—ln view of Ibe results
of the recent election in our State, I have
determined to write you a lcttereanvass
it)g the situation and. gjyjng you pry
views thereon. I will prempje.by Haying
that 1 am no politician,‘though having
been honored by a seat in tie United
States senate. I have never sought polit
ical preferment, noT do I ttsk it now, but
am engaged in my callingNthe miniMry),
and feeling an earnest the j&pi
fare of all-the ■peopled of race
or color, I have deemed it advisable to
submit to you, for consideration, a few
thoughts in regard to the political situa
tion in this State. Since reconstruction,
the masses of my people have been, as it
were, enslaved in mind by unprincipled
adventurers, who, caring nothing for the
country, were willing to stoop to any
thing. no matter how infamous, to secure
power to themselvtfe and perpetuate it.
My people are naturally Republicans, but
as they grow older in freedom so do they
in wisdom. A great portion of them
have learned that they wero, being used
as mere tools, and, as in the Tate election,
not being able to correct the existing
evil among themselves, they determined
by casting their ballots against these un
principled adventures to overthrow them.
My people have been told by these sche
mers when men were placed upon the
ticket who w'ere notoriously corrupt and
dishonest, that they must vote for them;
that the salvation of the party depended
upon it; that the man who scratched a
ticket was not a Republican. This is
only one of the many means these ma
lignant demagogues have devised to per
petuate the intellectual bondage of my
people. To defeat this policy, at the late
election, men, irrespective of race or par
ty affiliation, united and voted together
against men known to be incompetent
and dishonest. I cannot recognize, nor
do the masses of my people who read,
recognize the majority of the officials who
have been in power for the past two
years as Republicans. We do not believe
that Republicanism means corruption,
and embezzlement. These three offenses
have been prevailent among a great por
tion of oar office-holders ; to them must
be attributed the defeat of the Republi
can party in the State, if defeat there
was, but I, with all the lights before me,
look upon it as an uprising of the people,
the whole people, to crush out corrupt
rings arid men from power. The bitter
ness arid hate created by the late
strife has, in my opinion, been oblitera
ted in this State except, perhaps, in some
localities, and ’.mild have long since
been entirely effaced were it not for some
unprincipled men who would keep alive
the bitterness of the past, and inculcate
a hatred between the races in order that
they may aggrandize themselves by office
and its emoluments to control my peo
ple, the effect of which is to degrade
them. I give you my opinion that had
our State administration adhered to Re
publican principles, and stood by the
platform upon which it was elected, the
State to-day would have been on the
highway of prosperity. If the State ad
ministration had advanced patriotic
measures, appointed only honest and
competent men to office, and sought to
restore confidence between the races,
bloodshed would have been unknown,
peace would have prevailed. Federal in
terference been unthought of, and har
mony, friendship and mutual confidence
would have taken the place of the bayo
net. In conclusion, let me say to you,
and through you to the great Republican
party of the North, that I deemed it my
duty, in behalf of my people, that I pre
sent these facts in order that they and
the white people (their former owners)
should not suffer misrepresentations
which certain demagogues seem desirous
of encouraging. Respectfully,
H. R. Revels.
Site Meant Business.
They have some queer girls over in
Colorado, One of them, who resides
in the Cache la Poudre Valiev, had been
receiving the attention of a young man
for about a year, but, becoming impa
tient at his failure to bring matters to a
crisis, she resolved to ascertain his in
tentions. When he next called she
took him gently by the ear, led him •to
a seat, and said.
“ Nobby, you’ve bin foolin’ ’round
this claim fur mighty near a year, an’
hev never vjt shot off yer mouth on the
marryin’ biz. I’ve cottoned to yer on
the square clean through, an’ hev stood
off every other galoot that has tried ter
chip in; an’ no\v I w’ant yer to come
down tu business or leave the ranche*.
Ef yer ou the marry an’ want a pard
that’ll stick rite to ye till ye pass in yer
checks an' the good Lord* calls ye over
the range, jist squeal an’ we’ll hitch:
but ef that ain’ yer game, draw out an’
give some other feller a show fur his
pile. Now sing yer song or skip out.”
He sang. — Laramie Sun.
An Eleetrieal Likeness.
We learn that within the last tw’o weeks
a singular discovery has been made at
the house of Jesse Garth, for many years
deceased. It is said that a distinct and
accurate likeness of Mis. Garth, who has
been dead for twenty years, can be seen
on a pane of glass in the tipper sash of
one of the windows, presenting very much
the appearance of a photograph negative.
The discovery is said to have been made
by a woman who was washing clothes in
the yai€J who imagined someone was
watching her through the window, and
went inside to see who it was. We gather
these facts from Dr. Charles Brown, who
has himself seen the singular picture.
Dr. Brown remembers that about twenty
years ago, Mr. Garth told him that his
wife, while standing at the window, was
stunned by a sudden flash of lightning,
and the Doctor's theory is that the out
lines of her features were photographed
on the window pane at that time. The
youngest daughter of Mr. Garth, and
others who were well acquainted with
Mrs. Garth, have seen the picture and
pronounce it a striking likeness. It is
said to be more distinct about 9 o’clock
in the morning and 3 in the evening than
at any other time of the day.
CRAWFORD,; GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 7, 1876,
a Tame Otott.
- . it
A lady in this city was die owner- o#*
a ,pet crow “ JinN whose* history she
as follows: Sitting on the trtiftk o 1
a tree Iffside the cabin of a wood chop- 1
per in the Alleghanies I first saw him.
He was too young to fly, and, only par
tially covered with feathers,looked queer,
helpless; and withal* so mischievous,,
that I bought him, "tied him in my hand
kerchief, and’ hanging it on the pommel
of my saddle, rode twenty miles home.
It was the amusement of all the family
to fill up “Jim Crow,” which meant to
take pieces of bread, clover heads, and
indeed anything/drop it in his wide-open
mouth -till his craw, his throat and his
lbQUth were filled. There he would sit
with his bill wide open, unable to shut it
till-the food slowly digested, then com
menced his “ c&w, caw, caw.” With*
the wings came—what the quiet twinkle
in these black eyes foretold—misekief,
sly and deep. lie delighted'iff
to the colors ifTwTo,
made that place a paradise to him. He
would gently put his bill under the lid of
her sewing box and turn off the cover on
the floor—and then the fun began. The
needles were all carefully stuck over the
bed one by one. The cotton was hid in
the wood-house, and the scissors nicely
tucked under the pillows in the room
quite removed from the scene of his la
bors. The wax and thimble were drop
ped into the aquarium, and, after all this
dilioious fun, he one day took a little
pot of hard pomade in his bill and bop
ped to the edge of the veranda roof, ate
the pomade, with evident relish, and then
dropped the glass pot on the stovepipe
below with a satisfied air at its demolition.
He then flew down and carefully picked
up each piece and put it in the grass.
During the short illness of one of the
family, regularly at 9 a. m. “ Jim Crow”
hopped along the veranda roof, gave a
quiet tap on the closed window, and, on
being admited, gravely brought with
him to the bedside and laid on the table
a chicken bone or leg, or something
equally tempting. Seeing that he was
duly observed, he would ruffle up his
feathers, make himself appear like a large
round ball of black feathers, “ caw,” and
then open his mouth wide for a part of
the invalid’s breakfast. After stirring
up things for half an hour or more, open
ing the clock, picking at the hands, stop
ping the pendulum, dropping the soap in
the water pitcher, and taking all the pins
out of the pincushion, he would take his
leave.
The fish in the course of time disap
peared in the aquarium, and although all
the haps and mishaps of the house were
attributed to demure little “ Jim Crow,”
no one suspected that he was the cause of
the fish mystery. One morning he was
discovered taking a bath in it, and a fish
breakfast afterward. The mystery was
solved, and when the aquarium was emp
tied therajapie.tQ. light two thimbles, a
pair of ,schuos|, a penknife, a spoon.
To carry away "small chickens, drop
them, into holes, and cover them with
dirt, was bi*Jkitense delight, and when
he saw a dMrjicted hen rushing madly
about the barnyard, someone looked up
“Jim Crow” and went to the rescue.
After a day’s fishing, we were cleaning
the fish on the race bank. One little fish
was thrown into the water. A duck
quickly seized it by the head, and “Jim”
took the tail, and then they pulled and
pulled for a few seconds. The scene was
exceedingly amusing, for “ Jim” plan
ted his little black feet firmly on the edge
of the bank, and was slowly drawn into
the water, holding on to the fish. As
soon as he found that he was getting in
too deep, he let go his hold and llew
to a tree to take his usual revenge in scol
ding, and with his head on one side he
scolded till all the fish were cleaned.
Jim’s scolding consisted of a succession
of guttural sounds, said over and over,
with a very solemn face and mournful
mein, and has moved many people to
hearty laughter, because it was so in
tensely droll. While lie was quite young
he was tyrannized over, and all the fowls,
large and small, had a pick at Jim. But
one day he took a long straw in his bill
and chased the geese, who fled before
him, and Jim reigned supreme from that
day, and often repeated the scare, we
thought, for his own amusement.
Jim’s strong point was butter, and on
churning days Jim stayed at home and
behaved himself. He could eat half a
pound; but one day he ran his bill
through a pound, and tried to fly away
with it. He was caught rolling over and
over the floor with it, and from that time
he was banished.
As the summer faded into autumn Jim.
stayed away more and more from home,
and occasionally would return with
friends, evidently showing them around.
One Sunday afternoon the attention of
the family was drawn to vigorous cawing
on the veranda roof. There was Jim,
with three friends, all cawing. They
solemnly walked in at the window and
remained in the room some time, keep
ing up their conversation. When they
left, all movable things were found over
turned and the room left in the state
Jim always left it. The pleasure of that
place had no doubt been described by
Jim to his friends, and he had brought
them along for a frolic. His visits from
home became more extended, but when
ever he came he scolded as much as
ever, and seemingly tried to talk. He
would sit before the house and deliver
long harangues on subjects and in lan
guage too abstruse for us to comprehend.
One rainy September day he sat for hours
on the apple tree delivering, it must have
been, a farewell address, for when night
came he flew away and never came home
again.
A colored lady, not over neat in her
make-up, called a few days ago at a resi
dence on F street, Washington, rang the
front-door bell, and, on being admitted,
inquired if a cook was wauted. The mis
tress of the house, who was in want of a
servant but did not exactly like the ap
pearance of canidate, answered tentative
ly, and said: “ I suppose you can bring
good recommendations?”
“Ha, ha, ha,” lightly laughed the appli
cant, “the case’s jist here, I can give you
my recommendations if you can give me
yours. ”
This is pretty nearly equal to the case
of the colored lady who refused to wash
any longer for one of her female custom
ers because the cloths of the latter were
so small that she could not wear them.
Proctor says the moon is dead. Sorry
for it. The moon when alive was very
generally looked up to by all classes of
people. Need we suggest that it should
have a monument, at once ?
Abtixt Dreaa.
visions, and
llto-correct quota
tion, if it ain’t we don’-fcdbarge anything
extra for the above bitw Scripture. If
you would rather havePJl that old men
shall -see visions and ytwng men dream
dreams, go ahead. Th%> a free coun
try.
But talking about dgeams.
We have the best authority for believ
ing- in dreams, for we remember that the
Bible tells ns that Joseph* got out of a
mighty tight place puce hyjUiterpreting a
dream that Mir. Pharaoh ojpamed. And
Joseph could just boat any-iortuue teller
of his tiqiß. .He started tt a poor boy
in the world, unefer- adnsrse circum
stance*, wjth a an adver
tisement for % paint nrarafcietory; his
brother threwhhn into the jf, right be
hind tbr- nnjftgal iS&rled him.
nßut Xmu-hlr: "nef except
‘a slight misunderstanding with Mrs.
Potiphar, Joseph’s record is just as clear
as Washington's.
And we don't believe Mrs. Potiphar
was any great shake, anyhow.
But about dreams. We know they
come true. The first time we ascertain
ed this fact was when we were a boy.
We “played hooky” from school and
went home after dark, slipped up stairs
the back way, and going to bed. That
night we dreamed we got a horse-whip
ping, and sure enough, the next morning
it came true.
And that’s the reason we believe iu
dreams.
Another time we dreamed we found a
pocket-book with about $15,000 in it.
The next day we got turned out of the
house because we couldn’t pay rent,
three grocery-men stood at the door,
with bills in their lianas, and two con
tables watched the back door, while the
sheriff sat on top of the chimney.
So we know dreams always come true.
But that has nothing to do with what
Uncle Jimmie McKinzie dreamed twen
ty-five years ago. He dreamed that in
the vicinity of where Moberly now stands
was a gold mine, and in his dream he
saw it marked on the surface by a pecu
liarly shaped rock. He saw the rock so
plainly in his somnambulism that its con
tour and formation were indelibly stamp
ed in his memory. He dismissed tne
phantasy from his mind after he awoke,
as but the vision of a distempered brain
or over exerted body. Since that time
twenty-five years have clasped. One
day this week he passed by a stone in
this vicinity that immediately riveted his
attention. It waa the exact counterpart
of the dream he had years ago forgotten.
Upon a close examination each particu
lar outline came back as the faithful rep
resentation of what he had seen in his
vision in the years long ago. He broke
off'pieces of the stone and bad them ex
amined by an expert —an old Colorado
them a goldybearing quartz, of (Speeding
richness. _ .*Y
Uncle Jimmie keeps his secret, and
places implicit confidence in th# revela
tion. It would be strange indeed if after
all these long years, Uncle Jimmie’s
dream chould come true.
Worth Preserving.
One-ounoer alcohol, two drachms cay
enne pepper,’one ounce kerosene oil; let
it stand twenty-four hours after mixing.
It cures the worst toothache ever known.
Kerosene oil is good for removing rust
from cutlery.
Soft-soap should be kept in a dry place
in a cellar, and should not bo used for
three months after it is made, k
Lard should be kept hard-sun white;
and that which is taken from a,hog over
a year old is be^t.
To select nutmegs prick thefb with a
pin : if they are good the oil will instant
ly spread around the puncture.
When a keg of molasses is bo%ht draw
off a few quarts, else the fermentation
produced by moving it will hurst the
cask.
Two small arteries branching up from
the main arteries on each side of the neck
and passing over the outside of the jaw
bone, supplying the face with blood. If
the nose bleeds from the right nostril, for
example, pass the finger along the edge
of the right jaw till the beating of the ar
tery is felt. Press hard upon it five min
utes and the bleeding will cease.
The best way to enjoy things is to use
them, and thus get the worth of our
money out of them. There is no sense
in gorgeous parlors kept in darkness.
Safety in a Lion's Den.
Poor old Lee Belk. who lost his life
here on Saturday at the hands of Season
brothers, had been in numerous tight
places during his eventful and chequered
life. The younger R.obinsonfw.’ho was
managing the show which was here on
Saturday, related the particulars of a
frightful scrape old Lee got into once
during the term of several years he travel
ed with his father’s show. It was in Texas.
Lee had got into trouble with a body of
Texas ruffians who had come to the show
at, we think, Austin. Furious yith anger
and whisky, they set upon him with revol
ver and bowie-knife. The case was hope
less but iu flight and successfully eluding
pursuit. Luckily he escaped the first
onset and threw them off the trafek for a
moment. He could hear howls and
vengeful threats. Time was precious,
and a desperate deed for safety had to
he done quickly. He approached the
keeper of the lion’s cage, and, upon per
il of his life, bade him deliver him in
stantly the key. Belk unlocked the
door and, seeking the safety inside the
lion’s den he well knew was notout side.
The ruse successfully threw thpjn off the
scent. He rode in the lion’s Caga seven
teen miles, and the noble brute—nobler
than the human brutes who pursued—
treated him with kind indifference. It
is doubtless the only instance on recard
wherein mortal sought and obtained
safety from his infurate fellows by tak
ing refuge in a lion’s den.
A fashionable woman’s clothes weigh
twenty-four pounds, exclusive of hat,
furs, and rubbers, while a man’s outfit
hardly goes over fifteen pounds. This
Is a free country, however, and any
woman is at liberty to carry as much as
a mule can draw if she wants to.
“ I’ll be down again in a few days, and
bring you father’s full name and address,”
was the thoughtful remark of a New
Hampshire youth the other day, when he
dropped in at a marble-worker’s to select
a gravestone for his paternal relative.
BRIEFLETS.
[ Tho World in a >’( Shell—l.atest News
—Utah has one Gentile to five Mor
mons.
—Fifty thousand Hebrews carry on
business in the United States.
—Hailstones the size of oranges re
cently fell in Chihuahua, Mexico.
—Theatrical performances for the ben
efit of churches are common in San Fran
cisco.
—The South Bend, Indiana, Wagon
works.arc niaking a lot of wheels to go
to Germany.
—A Penennsylvania man has just got
rid of a roach that had been in his car
for nineteen years.
—There is a clock in Bangalore. Hin
dostanjvhich is'said to be 4,000 years
°lji still keeps UnpA.- f*4i •***§*••-
—A bill to establish the whipping post
for wife beaters has been introduced in
the California Legislature.
—A Michigan auctioneer, while crying
“going, going gone" dropped dead the
other day as the last word was uttered.
—A young man named John Morris, of
Langley, S. C., laughed himself to death
near Augusta the other day, rupturing a
blood vessel.
—ln Baltimore recently two persons
lost their lives by eating cake which had
become impregnated with phosphorus
from matches. .
—Buffalo Bill ha3 given a gentleman
at New Orleans a wonderfully economi
cal gun, which “ can be fired* thirty-five
times without loading.”
—Lay it down as a rule never to smile
nor in any way show approval, at any
trait in a child which you would not "wish
to grow and strengthen.
■ —Even the brute creation is suiciding.
A horse hung himself the other day ; a
dog drowned himself, and now a rooster
has dashed his brains out.
—Two ex-members of the House have
lately sought work iu the document fold
ing room, work which includes the wheel
ing of mail matter in a barrow to the
post-office.
—The New York Graphic is disgusted
because Speaker Kerr has appointed Al
exander Stephens, who doesn’t weigh
more than ninety pounds, chairman of
the Committee on Weights and Meas
ures.
—A man died recently in the hospital
of San Antonio, Texas, whose body was
covered with large spots, and whose flesh
became one mass of putrid matter.* He
had all the symptoms of the old-time
plague.
—The Rev. Dr. Cuyler, reckless of ac
curacy, says : Thisnration is spending
more money for intoxicating drink than
for all the clothes
it wears, and alj the. books it reads, au4
all the churches it has ever mult.
—ln France "the average, salary of
workmen (without or lodging) is
sixty-eight cents; in Germany, Italy and
Switzerland, thirty-eight cents ;* in Eng
land, eighty-three cents, living being
thirty per cent dearer than in France.
—A man in New Hampshire had the
misfortune recently to loose his wife.
Over the grave he caused a stone to be
placed, on which, in the depth of his
grief, lie ordered to be inscribed : “ Tears
cannot restore her—therefore I weep.”
There are five negro members of Con
gress. Three of them, before the war,
were unacquainted with the alphabet,
and one of them served in the army and
navy of the Confederacy and the Union,
offand on, during the late unpleasantness.
—A curious item from Maine : “ Car
ver’s pond, Vinalhaven, was covered on
Sunday with men and boys cutting fro
zen herrings out of the ice. The fish
were frozen in during the recent cold
snap. About 100 bushels were taken
out.”
—Residing fit Crescent, Saratoga coun
ty, are two oid men, hale and hearty.
They are twin brothers, and yet, strange
to say, the birthday of one comes in the
present year, that of the other not until
next year, one of them coming into the
world on New Year's eve, and the other
on New Year’s morning.
—There is a dog on the frontier of Da
kota Territory which singly and alone
carries the mail over a route of sixty
miles, through all weathers, as straight
as a die, and none dare molest him. His
name is Boss—but he never put in any
straw bid, and belongs to no ring. What
a pity more of the servants of the United
States are not dogs.
—There will be four eclipses the com
ing year—two of the sun and two of the
moon. Only two of them will be visible
in this country, namely, a partial eclipse
of the moon at midnight, March 9, and
an annual eclipse of the sUn March 25.
September 18, a total eclipse of the sun
will be visible in Australia, and the
Southern Pacific region.
—Two Freedenburgs, mother and son,
were to be hung in Utica, New York,
next Friday, for murder. On Tuesday
last the pangs of conscience extorted
from one Mary Davis, whose testimony
had fixed the crime on the Freedenburgs,
a confession that she herself had com
mitted the murder, and subsequently the
awful perjury which led to the convic
tion.
—A negro’s cabin was burned in Sum
ter, S. C., and his family were within
when the fire began. Their escape by
the door and single window was cut off,
and he broke a hole in the roof through
which to descend to their rescue. He
could only get one out at a time. His
wife and two children were taken out,
leaving one child behind. The negro
in his last descent had been badly burned
by the spreading flames, but he bravely
tried again, and was * burned to deatn
with the child.
—The discovery of a boiling lake in the
island of Dominica has excited much
scientific interest, and investigation of
the phenomenon are to be made by
geologists. It appears that a company
exploring the steep and forest-covered
mountains behiud the town of Rosseau
came upon this boiling lake, about 2,500
feet above the sea level, and two miles
in circumference. On the wind clearing
away for a moment the clouds of sulphu
rous steam with which the lake was cover
ed, a mound of water was seen ten feet
higher than the general Jevel of the
surface, caused by ebullition. The mar
gin of the lake consists of beds of sul
phur, and its overflowing found exit by
a waterfall of great height.
VOL II —NO. 13.
Timely Words.
The practice of buying on credit a 1
the necessary articles of the household
is fatal to good economy. The house
keeper has always to pay dearer when
she does not pay cash. The tradesman
must have interest for his money, for a
man will never in a business community,
be willing, and seldom is able, if he were
willing to forego it. Te the ordinary
cash prices of the article, lie therefore
adds the interest which may accrue du
ring the time that credit ’is allowed.
Phis, however, is not all. There must
be a premium exacted by the dealer for
the risk he runs in Dusting his goods to
that class of more or less dangerous cus
tomers who never pay ready money.
The most honestly disposed of these
are often unsafe debtors, for they are
generally such as are imprudent enough
to anticipate their incomes, and to over
j-whlh, The credit
system, moreover, is a temptation to
unnecessary purchases. There is a sort
of check in the sight and touch of the
hard won money to tire disposition to dis
pose of it lightly. On the other hand,
there is something in the facility of credit,
removing as it does the disagreeable ne
cessity ol payment to a vague future,
very seductive to the buyer, who can
gratify his love of possession with a mo
mentary sense at any rate, that its grati
fication costs him nothing. There is no
such cheap and cautious purchaser as
cash.
A Distressing 'ase of Want.
The New York Evening Post states
that the entire fortune of Mr. John Blake
Washington, of Summerville, South Car
olina, was swept away by the civil war,
and himself and family are now reduced
to the necessity sf depending for the very
means of ’ subsistence on the charity of
their friends. Mr. Washington is the
only living grandson, bearing the sur
name, of Col. William Washington, the
hero of the battle of Eutaw Springs, who
was a first cousin of General George
Washington. The Post says Mr. Wash
ington’s present distress is not owing to
any wise to wilful idleness ; he has made
every effort in the last few years to embark
in some kind of business, but in vain.
Mrs. Washington, his devoted wife, has
opened a children’s school, but thus far
has succeeded in getting but two pupils,
each of whom pays the miserable fee of
two and one-half dollars a month. The
country about Summerville is swarming
with ignorant negroes, and the white mi
nority are generally too poor to send their
children to a select school.
Swallowing- a Cent.
Dr. Gibbs, one of the editors of Hall’s
Journal of Health , who is himself an edu
cated physician and surgeon, while on a
railroad train the other day, was consul
ted by one of the employees on the train
in relation to his little boy, who bad that
morftmg swaliemt-d a"‘cent. “ Whjtf
have you done for him ?” asked the doc
tor. “We gave him a dose of castor oil,”
was the reply. “ Good practice so far ;
as soon as you reach home give him the
white of three raw eggs daily; let his
diet be bread and milk, and nothing
sour.” The directions were followed
faithfully, the whites of eggs repeated
every day, and the dose of oil at night;
and on the fouth day the cent was dis
charged. It was one of the new copper
coins and considerably corroded by the
action of the gastricyjuices. Since fatal
results often follow the swallowing a
copper coin, the judicious treatment ad
vised in this instance should be remem
bered by all who have the care of chil
dren. The essential points to be borne
in mind are simply these: Albumen, or
the whites of eggs, a bland diet, free
from acids, and castor oil.
A Virginia, Nevada, husband went to
the depot the other day to receive his
wife, whom he had not seen for two years.
When the train came in lie sprang for
ward to assist her from the car, arid had
managed to say, “ My dear, I when
she “put in’to the following effect:
“ llow is Mrs. Smith? Have vou seen
Tom? What a dreadful journey I’ve
bad ? Why don’t you take"your pants
out of your boots ? Aou must positive
ly have that hair of yours cut right away.
You’re smoking again, I see. Have you
got nice rooms ? I hope you haven’t
been drinking, dearest." Oh, dear me,
how muddy it is!”
—A vonng man in Olathe, Kansas,
who is particular about his washing, the
other day wrote a note to his washer
woman and one to his girl, and, by a
strange fatality, put the wrong address
on each envelope and sent "them off.
The washerwoman Was well pleased at
an invitation to tf.ke a ride the next day,
but when the young lady read : “If you
muss up my shirt-bosoms, and rnb the
buttons off my collar any more, as vou
did the last time, I will go somewhere
else,” she cried all the evening, and de
clares that she will never speak to him
again.
A special to the Macon Telegraph and
Messenger, last week, from .Sparta, gives
information of a most brutal and inhu
man murder committed near that place.
We cannot recollect any crime that
has ever occurred in Georgia that sur
passes it in its unnatural ness and inhu
manity. Just think of a man murdering
in cold blood, a sleeping brother. It
seems almost beyond credence; but such
is the fact. James Dickson killed his
brother David Dickson, Jr., in his bed,
where he was sleeping, by beating his
brains out with an auger.
—A strange death Ls reported to have
occurred in South Carolina recently : It
seems that hands were engaged in pack
ing cotton. They were preparing to pack
the last bale, having placed a quantity
of cotton in the screw, when it was found
that there was not enough cotton at hand
to make a full bale, and the hands went
off to get more. While absent, a negro
boy got into the screw on top of the cot
ton and fell asleep. The hands returned
and piled in more cotton, which praba
bly smothered the boy, and he was packed
in the bale.
Franklin Pence, of Darien, last year,
bought a shoat, for which he paid" the
high price of $6. He fed to it sixteen
bushels of corn, for which he paid $11.55.
He paid fifty cents for butchering. To
tal cost of the pork, $19.05. The pig
weighed when butchered three hundred
anb twenty-one pounds net, which he
sold for ten cents, making $35.10. From
this take the cost, $19.05 and he has
$13.05 net profit
THE OGLETHORPE J^HO
♦—*■ L,
SUBSCRIPTION.
ONE YEAR L ...i.lre.oo
SIX MONTHS 1.00
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 paj>er sent
until money received.
All papers atopped, at expiration of time,
unless renewed.
CRAWFORD
ACADEMY
r pilE EXERCISES OF THIS SCHOOL
A will open on MONDAY, the loth Janu
ary, 1875. . .
Rates of Tuition:
Primary Branches, per quarter $ 5 00
Elementary “ “ •' , 7 50
Higher “ “ “ 10 (XI
MUSIC, “ “ 10 00
Contingent Expenses, per session, 25
_ Board reasonable. Location healthy. Pu
pils prepared for any classhi College, or for
the practical business of life. A competent
Assistant will be employed if necessary.*
J. F. FTfKXEY. Principal.
Crawford, On., Dec. 11, 1575. dccll-tf
MESON
ACADEMY!
LEXINGTON, GA.
miTE.EXERCISES OF THIS INSTITU-
J- TION will be resumed on the
Second Monday in January Ned.
MRS. .1. R. SHACKELFORD will take
charge of the i
MUSIC DEPARTMENT, -
and a competent Assistant will be employed to
aid the Principal in the
LITERARY DEPARTMENT.
BOARD can l>e obtained on fcastiftable
terms. jmm
RATE-IN OF TI ITIOJf
Pkr Quarter : - *
Primary Classes ft 00
Intermediate Classes ,J 60
Higher English Studies 10 00
Languages and Higher Mathematics.., 12 60
Contingent Expenses, perquarter..,,.... 25
Those having sons or daughters t* a edneqte
will find few towns suj>erior to Lexington in
good society and moral influence.
Board and Tuition payable quarterly/
For further information address
THOS. B. MOSS,
PRINCIPAL*
Lexington, Dec. 3, 1875. dec3-2m
250,000 CIGARS
NOW IN STORE, OF THE ~ y '
Choicoxft 1 H’andxt -
which we offer at GREATLY REDUCED
PRICES. Also, a large stock of
SMOKING AND CHEWING
TOBACCO,
SNUFF, GENUINE MEERCHAUM PIPES
AND ALL SMOKERS’ ARTICLES.
A liberal discount allowed to Jobbers buy
ing largely. Come one! Come all!!
KALVARESBKY & LIEBLER,
notTce.
‘V
G real I? eduction
IN PRICES I
ON AND AFTER OCTOBER FIRST, WE
shall oiler to our customers Goods in our
line at much LOWER figures titan heretofore.
To enable us to do this We will adopt strictly
THE CASH SYSTEM!
We are now receiving a large and full assort
ment of Goods, bought at LOW PRICES,
which we invite all to call and examine.
CHILDS, NICKERSON & CO
Athens, Ga., Sept. 11, 1875. sep!7-tf
LITTLE STORE- CORNER
HERE THE CITIZENS OF OGLETHORPE
will alway find the Cheapest and
Best Stock of
FANCY GOODS, LIQUORS,
GROCERIES, LAMPS, OIL, Etc. .
J. M. BARRY. Broad Str., Athens, 6a
ap9*tf
ffff ffffr
SjliilM Stock
S. C. DOBBS,
New Planter’s Store,
BROAD STREET, - - ATHENS, GA.,
lias now in store one of the largest
and best selected stocks of
Dry G-oods, of all kinds,
GROCERIES, PROVISION. Etc.,
ever brought to Athens, which lie will sell as
LOW FOR JHE CASH a-can be lamglit
elsewhere in the city. I ask that the citizens
of Oglethorpe give me a trial when they visit
Athens, and I will convince them that thev
can purchase of me as low as goods can he.
sold. 1 have every article needed by farmers
or their families. apr2-tf
Go to Davis’ Gallery,
IN ATHENS,
IF YOI^WAKT
OLD PICTURES COPIED and ENLARGED
With RELIABLE and Guaranteed work,
At 25 Per Cent. Less
than Foreign Companies. jan29-tf
'ALA. TA LMAIXiE. F. P. TALMA DOB.
PLANTATION
TO RENT!
Good la*d, good houses—
Apply to J. G. GIBSON,
Crawford Ga,