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-A S3fKY FOR TIIY THOIOHm”
BV “kbaxk o’leaby.”
** A penny for my thoughts,” dear friend,
Ya gaily offer ioe,
And wonder why I gaze so long
At ysndev blunted tree.
Ifirbright-hned autumn dress may be
Bnt simple leaves to thee,
And why it should enchant my gaze
Hay iee a mystery.
• 4 *
I tone a beauteous tree last May—
Jbq floors wre sweet and fair
and, from its l*r;uiehez, Effie plucked
o wreathe ler sonny hair:
►thunderbolt, ala T has rifen
Its stew and waving lxmgh ;
The gracefiifTorm in ruin lies—
And where is Effie now ?
L&llY onefby the leaves float down,
And they are lovely yet—
They aeern too feir to rest upon
The dark earth, cold aud wet.
Bo sad, to think the tender leaf,
Where gold and crimson meet,
Will soon be lifeless, crushed and stained
By eareleHn, passing feet.
And Effie—Oh! you need not frown,
Nor turn from me, dear friend ;
Bat since you ask me for my thoughts
Pray listen, to the end—
I know that you will ne’er forget
That fair, angelic face,
The lute-like voice, the golden hair,
And form of perfect grace.
X saw youclaqi her little hand,
Beneath that same old tree;
I did pot hear you vow, im friend,
But woman’s eye can see !
And now your proud lip, firmly pressed,
Cannot conceal the pain—
Your struggle foi forgetfulness
Must ever prove in vain.
Poor Effie! why should poverty,
Or crimes by others done,
Scatter, like autumn leaves, the hopes
Of that pure, guileless one ?
Had can :cring grief or sorrow’s storm
E’er blasted thus your life,
You would have found no wintry change
In her, your promised wife.
Then baa man ! “ God’s noblest work” —
Go, seek that wounded dove,
And never let, the tyrant Pride
A conqueror prove to Love!
And this is why my draam-like eyes
Sought yonder blasted tree—
You bid a penny f>>r iny thoughts—
!>■* r-friend, I give them free.
BlILBl.Vt; THU SASD.
BY K 1.17.A COOK.
*Tis well to \, or, ’F.s wvl' to wed, *
For o the world hath done
B‘uee myrtles grow and zones blew,
And morning brought the sun.
But have ft care, ye young and fair,
lie suregre pledge with truth ;
Be that your love will wear
I Beyond the days of youth 1
For if you give not heart for heart,
As well as hand for hand,
Ysou'il find you’ve played the unwise part
And “ built upon the sand.”
’Tis well to save, ’tis well to have
A goodly store of g >id,
And hold enough of shining stuff,
For charity is cold.
But place not ail your hope and trust
In what the deep mine brings ;
Wc cannot live on yellow dust
Uu mixed with purer things;
And ho who piles up wealth alone
Will often have to stand
Beside his coffer c-liest, and own
’Tis “ built upon the sand,”
Tis good to speak in kfndly guise
And soothe where’er we can—
* Fair speech should hind the human mind
And love link man to man.
But stop not at the'geatle words—
* * Le: deeds with language dwell;
The one who pities starving birds
Should scatter crumbs as well;
The mercy that is warm and true
Host lend a helping hand,
For those that talk, yet fail to do,
But “ build upon the sand.”
A Hum mm HMatemlt,
Tb# Opinion National of Lima pab
tjie following : We are informed
Jint the day before yesterday an ira
jlffnfrt quantity of human remains were
from one of the walls of the old
4pdres hospital. In consequence of re
pair* now being made, it became neces
gf.rj to throw down one of the walls of
fi Chinese ward, which adjoins the de
partment named “ Our Lady of Mercy,”
And the laborers, to their surprise, found
*jj e wa U was hollow, and filled with
remains. As was to be expected,
work was then pushed on more rapidly,
•nd our informant says that on that day
Atone several hundred skeletons were re
moved, and the dresses of all remained in
ft good condition. On the following days
work of removal was continued, and
vre arc informed that already between
4§§o and 5,000 skeletons have been re
moved. The impression generally pre
c.’U*hftt these bones belong to victims
of th* inquisition. They appear to be
Ig&’ta 200 years old, and from their ap
jgftHAancs lead to the belief that the bod-
Ita were thrown into the opening between
tha walls. AU the skeletons appear to
Irdothvd, and dresees, boots and shoes
fcu-M mixed with large quantities of
-T —rm’-lr"- k of a Spanish
lalcsal eke been feting, but nothing
Any value,
B a tmT u cn
f —-Woman uatfrage is slowly but sure
ly ground. Hundreds of thou
of women sure voters already. Wo
■testers voting to-day in England, Hol
, Austria and ifweden; they have
voted for five years in Aborning and
Utah.
m■- * ■ *
Gentleness corrects whatever is offen
i five in our manners.
id|e (Oglctljocpc tlrcljo.
BY T. L. GANTT.
WON BY CARDS;
Or, A STORY OF FRONTIER EIFE.
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“ For Christine.”
“ For Christine!” the stranger repeat
ed as he took his place at the table, while
the old woman, with, a ringing laugh,
shuffled the cards once more, aud again
the game went on.
It was a wild wierd scene, which per
haps could not have been witnessed in
any other part of the globe.
A group of men, in every description
of dress numbering no less than a hun
dred, stood looking on—some in silence,
some uttering oaths and bandying coarse
joke? v oy watched Madame Dupray,
the wit, test woman in the colonies,
fleece her last victim.
Tv. o weeks before, she announced that
she should set her daughter up to be
played for. If the man lost he was to
pay Madam one hundred pounds; if he
won—Christine wa& to pass into his
hands, the Madam’s control over her at
an end!
This was Madam’s latest desperate
game, and in anticipation of this she had
kept her daughter in seclusion. Only a
a few had ever looked upon her face, and
those few raved so about her beauty that
it inflamed the hearts of their comrades.
To-night she had stood before them.
Never had their eyes fallen pn such love
liness. Madam arrayed her in costly
robes; but even though she had been
clad in rags, her rich, raident, dusky
beauty would have bewildered the eye.
Her beauty infatuated the beholder,
undone by one the men advanced, and
flung down their one hundred pound
stake, and one by one arose defeated,
while Madam’s servant swept the gold
away. *
Some risked, but the game went on ;
others played game after game, until
their pockets were cleaned out, before
they would give up.
Madam was exultant ; she was reap
ing a high harvest to-night. What a
lQckie thought it had been !
Her skill in cards was something al
most infernal, as many poor follows could
attest to their sorrow. Hardly a miner
with his bug of gold came down .from
the mountains whom the Madam did not
lure into her den ; and once in the fas
cination would he so strong that when
they went so ruined. Borne had
retrieved their fortunes ; others “ had
gone to the dog§,” and many a poor fel
low had filled a suicide’s grave.
To-night but few had intended to play
wlien they entered, but now the last vic
tim was sitting down. He kept his hat
slouched over his eyes; no one knew him.
He had dropped in to look on; he had no
intention to have anything to do with the
“ hellish game,” as he called it.
Madam played like one possessed,
but her good ’uck was leaving her. She
laid down no card her opponent could
not defeat; aud, as the game progressed,
stillness reigned, every sound died out—
all were absorbed in seeing if, indeed,
Christine Dupray was to bo won to-night.
One turd more! Madam threw the
pack on the floor in a rage, ami the stran
ger arose, saying :
“ Christine is mine !”
A wild, deafening cry arose ; though
defeated themselves, the men were glad
that someone had won her—Madam
could not play that game over.
The stranger advanced to Christine ;
ho saw the wild look of affright in her
beautiful, dusky eyes, and his voice in
tuitively became softer, as he said :
“ Get your-hat. This is noplace for
you. You will be safer with me than
here,” glancing around upon the rough
wild group.
As one in a dream she obeyed him, and
the men parted to let them pass out.
Madam said no word of adieu to her
daughter ; she only muttered curses up
on the fellow whose skill was greater
than her own.
The strauger took the girl to a hotel
and early next morning he took her “ to
parts unknown” to who had tried
to win her; but in reality only to place
her in a good boarding-school in one of
the citi s.
He then paid for a year’s tuition in
advance. He gave them his address,
wishing them to write twice a year and
inform him of her progress; and then,
bidding the girl to keep to herself all of
her history, he took his departure.
Four years passed away. Christine’s
beauty bad increased, not diminished.
She had not looked upon her guardian’s
face (for as such she spoke of her own
er,) but he was ever in her mind asso
ciated with that awful night. Even now
all the swarm of wind faces swarm before
her vision and made her sick at heart.
From the little, ignorent, fourteen year
old child, she had developed int-o a glow
ing, educated, refined young lady of
eighteen, and now a letter came address
ed to herself. It read :
“It Ls four years since I saw you.
Your school days are drawing to a close.
lam coming to ask you to be my wife,-
and go with me to a home of my own.”
There was no word that she belonged
to him, nothing that indicated his owner
ship of her, but she shrank back irora
the letter with affright. She could not
meet this man ! She dare not meet him!
What must she do?
She went into the open air. At a
little distance she could see a steamer at
tbo wharf, almost ready to leave for tho
Australian shore. A wild thought to es
CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 14, 1876
cape came into her mind. She had been
kept in money, of which she had made
little use. Perhaps she had euough to
take her far away. She returned to the
school, secured her money and jewekr
and returned to the boat.
She had barely time to write a note
before the plank was pulled in, aud amid
cheers and goodbyes the boat started on
her journey. She purchased a ticket,
leaking au excuse for comingso late that
she had just received a letter which sum
moned her to .England.
Two days later Mr. Hardcliffe made
his appearance at the school and asked
for his ward, Christine. The matron
handed him a sealed envelope. It con
tained the note she had scibbled on the
moment of her departure, and ran thus :
“ I cannot stay to meet you. I am
now on hoard the Eagle, and before you
get this, will be far away. I am not
going out of ingratitude. I remember
what you have done for me. You res
cued me from degradation worse than
death, and have given me an education
which but few in the country receive.
And now, out of the goodness of yonr
heart, not knowing how else to dispose
of me, you are willing to marry me rath
er than allow me to be cast on the world
friendless. Such an act I cannot permit.
You shall not be bound to Christine Du
pray, daughter of ‘ the'tojfflced,woman in
the colonies.’ The blight would be fa
tal to us both. I leave my thanks, and
Christine will pray for you as long as
the breath of life is in her body. Fare
well, forever.”
He re-read the note, and then turned
to the preceptress, who was standing
nervously awaiting him to speak.
“My protege has gone to England,” he
said quietly. “She could not wait to con
sult me. I hope she had money to de
fray her expences,”
The woman breathed more freely. She
had expected a scene—expected to be
upraided for not keeping a stricter watch
over her pupils.
“Ithink she had,” she answered.
You were very liberal in your allowances
of spending money, and Christine
was very careful ; she never 1 frittered it
away as other girls.”
“ Have you any bills against me?” he
inquired.
“ None whatever.”
“ Then good day,” and he was gone.
Six years later.
Guy Hardcliffe had saceeudM r ft tehe
mines beyond his wildest expectations.
Almost at the last moment, when his
courage was beginning to fail, he had
struck upon such a streak of gold, in
Golden Gulch, that his fortune was made
iu a few days. The word came to him
that his uncle was dead, and he came in
to the Hardcliffe property and title.
He sailed for England, and went to his
new home. Everything was strange to
him. The customs of his new life—ev
erything was dull, and he gave it up and
went to i’aris, to see if he could there be
amused for a little while.
Mademoiselle Santelli was advertised,
and many were flocking to see her. She
was the new cantatrice, about whom all
men were going crazy. Her beauty and
her voice were raved about, until Guy
Hardcliffe determined to go and see her
himself.
Once in the building he was spell
bouud. In the beautiful creature, whose
glowing loveliness infatuated all who
went to see, he recognized the girl won
by a game of cards—Christine Dupray !
He watched, he listened, and that hour
he felt his doom sealed. No woman had
ever thrilled him as this woman did; no
woman had ever seemed the same.
He made no remarks, but asked Ids
friend her history.
“ She came from Australia,” liis friend
said—“ an orphan alone. Her voice on
shipboard attracted old Mezzo, and he
engaged her to go to Italy and have her
talent educated. She did so, and when
he introduced her to the public she was
immediately successful. Men were mad
about her wherever she went, and Mez
zo’s widowed sister traveled with her,
and took care of her, and no one could
say a word derogatory of her.”
Hardclitfe listened like one in a dream.
“ Introduce me,” he said.
When brought in close contact with
her he admired her even more than when
on the stage, but to him, as to the rest,
she maintained the coldest politeness.
He knew that she did not recognize him,
for he had changed in appearance, and
his true name she had never known.
Day by day he haunted her, and when
she was about to leave Paris he suddenly
became frenzied, and told her he coaid
not live without her.
She listened t® his torrent of words
with trembling lips.
“Do not say more,” she pleaded.
“You do not know what you ask. I
shall never marry.”
“ Why not ?”
“My past,” she said, quietly—“ I can
not reveal it, and it forbids such a thing.”
- He approached nearer.
, J?' Christine,” he said softly, “ Chris
tifte-, I know it all, and there is nothing
in that to separate us.”
“ You —you”—she faltered—“ were—”
“ The man who won you, Christine,
let me win you again.”
And he did. He never regretted hav
ing won Christine for his wife from the
“ wickedest woman in the colonies,” who
confessed at the last moment that she
was not her own daughter but only an
adopted child.
BRTTirUTS.
Tb World In ■ Tfl liilwl Im.
—Grant is a Methodist
—The U. A. O. is another Know-Noth
ing organization.
—Clear moon January Ist is said to
be an indication of a fffte year.
—Uncle Sam still has left 1,154,000,-
000 acres of land, such as it Is.
—There are 11,333 blind men and
8,977 blind women iiti the United State*.
—ln a Pennsylvania &mjly, composed
of 24 members, there are 11 pairs of
twins.
—A Nebraska man died the-olher day
at the agejof 99 years, if monthaand£3o
days. "„.v
—The papers announce the death Of
Mrs. C.C. Bowen, the laughter of James
L. Tettigra,
—A piece of iron hang in fruit trees
will effectually prevent the ravages of
frost. So sed.
—There U a town in Indiana named
Possumglory, and one in Arkansas na
med Toperjrille.
—The Shah is, exteraHnatingJthe Free
Masons, and will not allow them in Per
sia under pain of death.
—A child, only 6 ‘years old, was re
cently sentenced to the workhouse in
Lgndon for drunkenness.
—The Republicans in the Ohio Legis
lature have recognized*the negro. They
have given him two clerkships.
—Complete success is said to have at
tended the attempt in Paris, of raising
and training zebras for domestic pur
poses. * '■
—Four girls, between 14 and 16 years,
confessed having set fire to a schoolhouse
in Greenfield, Mo., and were sentenced
to jail, They were highly respectable.
—Scalps are receivable in payment of
•taxes in Tennessee. Wolf scalps are
rated at two dollars ; bear, wildcat and
red fox, one dollar each; gray fgx fifty
cents. -*’•
• —Out of four hundred, religions pub
lications in the United-States, the Meth
odists claim 47, the Roman Catholics 41,
tire Baptists 35, the Presbyterians 29 and
the Jews 9.
—The Chinese never dun a debtor ;
nut don’t go to Chiuafon that account.
If the money isn’t when due, off
Monies hn ear to
of his ways. , -
r-The proposition Jo amend, the Con
stitution of Mississippi so that no person
can vote who cannot read and write,
meets with unqualified approval in every
decent quarter.
—Lady Louisa Stuart, the last descen
dant of the rwyal family of Scotland,
has just died in England, in her 100th
year. Lady Louisa Stuart was the last
surviving representative of a once pow
erful border cl&ti.
—ln a steel trap which had been set
in a store at Belfast, Me., there were
found the next morning ahe two fore
legs of a rat. The animal, after the
springing of the trap,diaH gnawed off his
legs and made good hk escape. ,
—The book-keeper in a Troy book
store has in his possession a twenty-five
cent shin pi aster, on the back of which
is the following inscription: “-Every
time this is used for whiskey, mark it.”
Under this are twenty marks—none of
them made by the book-keeper.
—The following is said to be a never
failing cure for earache: Take a bit of
cotton bating, put upon it a bit of black
pepper, gather it up aud tie it, dip it in
sweet oil, and insert into the ear. Put,a
flannel bandage over the head to keep It
>varm. It will give immediate relief.
—An agricultural paper advises peo
ple who transplant trees to mark the
north side of each tree with red chalk
before it is taken up, and replace it ia
its natural position. A larger propor
tion will then live, as in ignoring this
law of nature transplanted trees gener
ally perish. rf-eHfc#* w
—Blondin, the tight-rope walker, has
been heard from again. On the 19th of
October last, while oa the Indian steam
ship Poonah, and at sea, he walked on a
7-inch hawser from the main to the miz
zentopmast and back. It is said that
with the rolling of the ship and the vi
bration of the powerftil engines the rope
was drawn into such sinuous waves that
it closely resembled a snake.
—The Grand Jury at Jacksonville,
Fla., makes the following disclosures:
“ We find that there are three prisoners
in jail who have been there nearly two
years for the pitiful sum of $lO costs
each. These prisoners have cost the
county nearly S9OO. We recommend
that the county commissioners *pay the
fines, release the prisoners and thereby
save money for the county.'*
—lt is said that Mr. Lamar will urge
upon the Democratic caucus the neces
sity of passing in the house a resolution
declaring that the Confederate war debt
shall never be recognized nor assumed
by the United States ; that no claim for
slaves freed daring the war shall be rec
ognized, ever, as lawful, and that the
national credit shall be maintained. We
denounce any such resolution. Let Mr.
Lamar donate his slaves to Uncle Sam
if he wishes, but we’d rather hold our
claim until honest men assuute the
reigns of govt rnment.
Turkish Barbarities.
A private letter received from Ragusa
Del maria, Austria, from a lady who was
an eye-witness to the sufferings of the
Herzegovian refugees, and contains the
fbllowing: “ Very many children had
only one garment together, principally
one mass of rags, which seemed to,make
their nakedness more pitiful, and yet of
all the refugees, those at Ragusa are the
most fortunate, the best fed and clothed.
There are at presant, in the district of
Ragusa alone, about twelve thousand
refugees, nearly all women, children and
old men; in Montenegro there are fifty
thousand, and in Croatia and Sfervla
thousand again, the whole number of
refugees amounting to neary one hun
dred and fifty thousand. With the
means received up to the present time
sixteen or eighteen thousand vpeople
might be protected to the extent of a
blanket apiece from the winter’s cold,
but the remaining one hundred thousand
or more can receive no assistance, to say
nothing of the wounded men brought in
from the battlefield, the sick and dying,
the child-bearing women, and pest
stricken.” The lady makes an earnest
appeal for help to keep from death by
cold and starvation a
whose great offence is that they are
Christians —“ Christian dogs,” as tin y
are termed. She adds': “
was oft the frontier of Bosnia, where the
river Save divides the Turkish • territory
from the Austrian. He was entreated
by the people of the Austrian village not
to cross the river and enter a Turkish
town, as he would certainly lose his life,
but he did eross over, and allowing him
self to be introduced Jas a merchant of
Trieste he was unmolested. The head
less bodies of Chistians lay alL,about
the streets of Costiantya, the town
which he bad entered. On the river he
saw two boats filled with refugees striv
irigfor dear life to reach the Austrian
shore, when tlic|-Turks‘ a fired upon them,
sinking one of the boats, while the other
reached the shore covered with the blood
of wounded refugees. Headless bodies
of women were floating on the water, aud
in the streets swine devour the corpses
of Christian women.”
A Trim Story.
He was a poor beggar, and, being hun
gry, the most natural place for him to go
to was an eating house. So the poor
beggar did so, and, thinking 4ie espied
twu Hmtabie4*ml*tted gentlemen setting
at a table, he approached them and asked
for food. One of them seemed touched
by the poor fellow’s appeal and offered
him a piece of bread. His sympathy was
only a ruse, however; lor when the poor
beggar put forth his hand to grasp the
proffered food the charitable gentleman
withdrew it and put it into his own
mouthy saying, so the report says:
“ a beggar, anyhow.” In a
few seconds his friend heard a peculiar
sound and, looking up, saw the charita
ble gentleman purple in the face. Quick
ly he rolled upon the floor, gave a feW
convulsive grasps at his throat, turned
black in the face, and then was dead.
Choked to death with the piece of bread
he had refused the poor beggar I This
is neither an age of miracles nor of su
perstition, but there is in this simple
narrative of an accident, which occurred
in New York city, a moral that, doubt
less, many a clergyman will discant upon
from the pulpit with benefit to his hear
ers.
A Follows* 'of C 4. W.
A good little boy out West undertook
to come tlie G. Washington on his moth
er in this way: He cut off the cat’s head
with the traditional hatchet, and then
hid the defunct feline in the meal bar
rel. When the old lady went for meal
to make the hoe-cake for the frugal re
past, she discovered the cat and inter
viewed her son. He said: “ I did it
mother with my little hatchet; but I’ll
be swinged if I can tell the whole truth
about this affair.” Now most mothers
would, have kissed that brave, truthful
lad on his noble brow, and kept on using
the meal out of that barrel just the
same; but this ooe didn’t. She said :
“ Come across my lap, my son, come
across my lap.” He came; and for
awhile therp arose a cloud from the seat
of his trowsers that effectually hid the
son from view, and the old woman now
sports goggles and is lavish in the use of
Petit’s eye salve. That good little boy
frn/i put cayenne pepper in the seat of
his pants.
A Plata for Beading the Bible Through
Every Tear.
During January read Genesis and Ex
odus ; February, read the 19th Deutero
nomy ; March, to loth of Ist Samuel ;
April, to 15th of 2d Kings ; May, to sth
Nehemiah ; June, to 100th Psalm ; July,
to 50th of Isaiah ; August, to 20th Ezek
iel ; September, to end of Old Testament;
October, to end of Luke; November, to
end of Ist Corinthians ; December, to
end of New Testament. About sixty
five to seventy-five pages per month, or
about two pages for every week day and
four pages for every Sunday.
The author of the above simple plan
has rigidly adhered to it as a daily devo
tional exercise for twenty-four, years ;
and, feeling that this is the “"Bread of
Life,” he is afraid now to discontinue it.
Header! paste this ou the inner cover of
your Bible and try it.
Hope is a lover’s
VOL II—NO. 14.
deviltries.
The Raciest, Latent and Bent WltJcisms.
‘ The only man not spoiled by being
lionized was the prophet Daniel.
Teacher u \\ hat is the definition of
I flirtation ? Intelligent young pupil: It
j is attention without intention.
Lovers should be careful how they
act in the country, for potatoes have
eyes, corn cars and bean stalk.
“ The 1 wo-Orphans 1 ’ is the name of
an Atlanta saloon. It will doubtless
make many mote of the sau}e„sort.
! | in. last week, a man
namdd Gale married a woman named
Breeze. Look ouUfor lfttle Squalls.
—lt is an undeniable fact that a d&r
fcty tofft giYfft7o doltarfc for an umbrella
to keep the water off of a fifty cent* suit
of clothes, -
—A scientific paper says : “ Keep your
mirrors away from the sun.” “And
the daughters, also, if you can,” adds a
family journal.
—A Boston paper notes that “a popu
lar actress, who died recently, left an
unprotected husband without visible
means of support.”
—A Montreal physician, asking for
the renewal of a note, writes : “We are
io a horrible crisis; there is not a sick
man in the district.”,
—A Vermont woman, tackled a bear
last week and killed it, greatly to the
disappointment of her'busband, who
withessed the contest.
—An Oswego family has issued invi
tations for a silver wedding, and inclosed
a little card bearing the timely warning,
“Please avoid dollar stores.”
—A young man .asked his bachelor
uncle: “ What advice would you give to
a young man who was centemplating
matrimony ?” “ I would advise him to
keep on contemplating it.”
—When a lady passes an old widower,
and he turns his head sideways, and
looks like an anxious bull terrier peep
ing into a rat-hole, you may know he is
thinking about cold weather.
—Just think, if you swore off using
tobacco and wearing clothes after tbe Ist
of February you would save five dollars,
per week at least, and five dollars per
week for 1,000 years is $260,000.
—“ Remember who you are talking
to, sir 1” said an indignant parent to a
fraction* bay“ I axq you/ father, air 1”
“ Well, who’s to blame for that,” said
the boy; “ ’taint me, sarting.”
—A bachelor returning from a ball in
crowded coach, declared with a groan
that he had not the slightest objection
to “ rings on his fingers,” but he had a
moat unequivocal aversion to “belles on
his toes.”
—A Boston clergyman advanced the
idea in his sermon, last Sunday, that
striped stockings are destructive to fe*
male modesty. “ But a little while ago,”
said he, “ young ladies refused to go up
stairs in advance of gentlemen. Now
they seem anxious to do it.”
—“ Johnny, where’s your pa?” “Gone
fishing, sir.” “He was fishing yester
day, wasn’t he?” “Yes, sir.” “What
did he catch ?” “ One catfish, the rheu
matism, two eels, the toothache, aud
some little ones. Ma says he’ll catch
hell to-night; just wait till he gets home.”
—“Henry,” said Mrs. Chandler, “what
smell is that?” “ Cloves.” “ But that
other smell?” “Allspice.” “But isn’t
there another?” “ Yes—apples.” And
just oue more?” “Cider, my dear.”
“ Well, Henry,” said she, “ if you’d only
drink a little brandy now, you’d make a
good mince pie.”
—No man with an average amount of
self-possession need be without an um
brella on a rainy day. All he has to do
is to step up to the first stranger he sees
carrying a good one, andstyr: “Beg
pardon, sir; I believe you have my um
brella.” The chances are ten to one
that the fellow will stammer out an
apology and hand it over.
—lt was in Omaha. A lawyer was
addressing the Judge, and the Judge
was eating peanuts and reading a novel.
The lawyer bore it for some time, and
then angrily remarked: “ I suppose I’m
entitld to claim the attention of this
court.” “ Well, sir,” retorted the Judge?
“ the court, has long suspected you, and
will do its duty the first chance it gets.”
—“ Benjamin,” shouted Mrs. Toodles
to her husband who was going out of
the gate, “ bring me five cents worth of
snuff when you come.” “ Snuff? Mrs.
Toodles, snuff?” he ejaculated, as he
paused with his hands ou the latch.
“ No, no, Mrs. Toodles, the times are
too hard to admit of such extravagance;
you must tickle your nose with a straw
when you want to sneeze.”
—Old Mrs. Duflicker stated to a
neighbor, the other night, while com
fortably sitting in front of the fire, that
she had “ allere had a great notion to
learn to smoke,” she did so love the
“ aromy of tobacker.” She added : “ I
would hev learned long ago, dear knows,
but I heerd wunst that a man had his
tongue paralyzed by smokin’, and that
skeered me out. Lord knows I wouldn’t
want my tongue paralyzed, for I couldn’t
talk none ef it was.” Here the old gen
tlemen, who had been silently gazing
into the fire, drew a long sigh. There’s
no telling what the old gentleman was
thinking about—uo, it buried
with him.
THE OGLETHORPE ECHO
SUBSCRIPTION.
ONE YEAR *?.<>•
SIX MONTHS 1.94
THREE MONTHS ft#
CLUB RATES.
FIVE COPIES or less than 10, each.. 1.79
TEN COPIES or more, each 1,00
Terms— Cash in advance. No paper mO
until money received.
All papers stopped at expiration et
unless renewed.
CRAWFORD
ACADEMY
The exercises of this school
will open on MONDAY, the 10th Janu
ary, 1875.
Rates of Taition:
Primary Brandies, per quarter $ 5 00
Elementary “ “ “ 7 SO
Higher ¥ “ “ 10 00
MUSIC, * " 10 00
Contingent Expenses, per session,
Board reasonable. Location healthy. Pu
pils prepared tor any class in College, or far
the practical business of life. A competent
Assistant will be employed if necessary.
J. P. CHUNKY, PrinripsL
CrairfS>rd;-t7a., PM1,1575.
MESON
ACADEMY!
LEXINGTON, GA.
TnE EXERCISES OF THIS INSTITU
TION will be resumed on the
Second Monday in January Neil
MRS. J. R. SHACKELFORD will Ukm
charge of the
- . MUSIC DEPARTMENT,
and a competent Assistant will be employed In
aid the Principal in the
LITERARY DEPARTMENT.
BOARD can be obtained on reasonable
terms.
RATES oF*TUITION
Per Quarter;
Primary Classes ..$ 5 44
Intermediate Classes 7 50
Higher English Studies 10 00
Languages and Higher Mathematics... 18 80
Contingent Expenses'perquarter M
Those having sons or daughters to eduonto
will find few towns superior to Lexington it
good society and moral influence.
Board and Tuition payable quarterly.^
For further information address
THOS. B. MOSS,,
PRINCIPAL*.
4 Lexington, Dec. 3,1875. dec3-2in
-250,000 CIGARS
NOW IN STORE, OF THE
Olioicest Brands 2
which we offer at GREATLY REDU(Jt*
PRICES. Also, a large stock of
SMOKING AND CHEWING
TOBACCO,
SNUFF, GENUINE MEERCHAUM PTPfIO
AND AL3b SMOKERS’ ARTICLES.
A liberal discount allowed k> Jobbem bal
ing largely. Come one I Come &H II
KALVARINSKY & LIEBLER,
NOTICE.
Great Reduction
IN PRICES J
ON ANI) AFTER OCTOBER FIRST, WE
shall offer to ftur easterners Goods in our
line at much LOWER figures than heretofore.
To enable us to do this we will adopt strictly
THE CASH SYSTEM!
We are now receiving a large in<l full assort
ment of Goods, bought at LOW PRICES,
which we invite al! to call and examine.
CHILDS, NICKERSON & CO
Athens, Ua., Sept. 11, 1876. sepl7-tf
LITTLE STQRE^CORHER
HERE THE CITIZENS OFOGLETIIOBPB
will alway find the Cheapest-artd
<* ' ' Beat Stock of
FANCY GOODS, LIQUORS,
GROCERIES, OIL, Etc.
J. M. ABEY. Broad Str. t % Athens,
Sf!ll Fall M
S. C. DOBBS,
Now Planter’s Store,
BROAD STREET, - - ATHENS, QJL,
has now in store one of the largest
and best selected stocks of
Dry Goods, of all kinds,
GROCERIES, PROVISION. Em,
ever brought to Athens, which he will aeR m
LOW FOR THE CASH aa cm be bought
elsewhere in the city. 1 ask that the citiuma
of Oglethorpe give me a trial when they visit
Athens, ana I will convince them that they
can purchase of lue as low as goods etui be
sold. I have every article needed by farm era
or tbeir families. apr2-fcf
Go to Davis’ Gallery,
IN ATHENS,
IF YOLJ^WANT
OLD MORES COPIED arid ENLARGED
With RELIABLE and Gnaranteed work.
At 25 Per Cent. Less 1
than j Foreign Companies. janSfl-tf
•j&A. TAI.MAPGK. V. ¥, TAXJfAMNb
PLANTATION
TO RENT!
Good land, good houses—
Apply to J. (j. GIBSON,
Chi wind Ga.