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TIIK SEW COM.WASDWEST.
[.SY. John, 1 1th chop., Mth verse.']
“ FRANK. O’LKABY.”
Upon His cross our Master nailed
The law we could not keep,
Nor left the thorny crown behind
To make his followers weep.
For He, and He alone, could fill
That law graved in the rock—
He knew the erring human hearts
Of His poor, trembling flock.
The tablets held on Sinai’s mount
Were given by God’s hand—
Ilis only son on earth obeyed
Each just, yet stern, command;
And gave instead another law,
E’er bidding earth farewell,
That we must keep, if we with him
In bliss would ever dwell.
It seems to be a simple thing,
That law of perfect love,
And still it is the only tie
That binds the hosts above —
So plain, that all nmy understand,
And yet we heed it not,
Foroftimcs is that sweet command
By human hearts forgot.
“ Love ye one another here,
As I have loved you all.” .
Oh ! listen, man—obey that voice—
Our gentle Shepherd’s call.
He sees each unkind, chilling look
We give to one another,
And knows that man cannot love God
VV ho lovetli not his brother.
I he mote that dims the neighbor’s eye
With gentle touch remove,
II in thine own no beam doth hide
The holy light of love.
W e cannot tell the hidden woe
Our brother’s heart may bear —
The “ ninety and the nine” should hold
Each wandering sinner dear.
And “judge not, that ye be not judged.”
Our Master knows it all—
He “ guides the eagle in its flight,”
Yet “ sees the sparrow fall.”
And soon that Shepherd King must come,
The day is drawing nigh,
M hen with a loving hand He’ll wipe
The tear from sorrow’s eye.
His pitying heart ne’er turned away
From weeping Magdalene,
Nor did His footsteps ever shun
The borne of want and pain.
And now if we have scorned while here
llis last—His best command,
A\ hat crown of joy can wc expect
From that dear, gentle hand?
SALK OF THE CRIB.
“ PAULINE.”
Oh, stern and silent my father grew—
The landlord said that the rent was dec,
And mother wept as she turned away ;
He saw her tears, but he would not stay.
'I he hearth was cold, but the night was chill;
i >ur money lay in the alehouse till;
And, cold and weary, we crept inside
The little crib where the baby died.
The morrow came, and the landlord, too ;
Again he said that the rent was due,
A nd 101 l the door with a bitter curse,
i\ lien mother showed him her empty purse.
'! hen one by one though our treasures went,
There yet was lacking a tithe of rent,
Until we gave—we had naught beside—
The little crib where the baby died.
It stood on the auction block next day ;
1 pick up rags and pass that way
For one more look at the cradle where
T he darling lay, and I saw it there.
The tears would come, tho’ I held my breath ;
1 liyed all over her life and death—
The crowd pressed on—l was pushed aside—
They sold the crib where the baby died!
A “ Wolf-Child.”
A “ wolf-child,” the real thing, has
been Interviewed by Editor Francis in
the orphanage that occupies the touib of
Akbar’s begum at Secundra, India. He
is about 20 years old, and was captured
in a wolf’s den at Bulandshaw, twelve
years ago. He was then fully eight
years old, was found in company with
the wolf and walking upon all fours, and
the animal recognized and protected him
as one of her own progeny. No doubt
the boy had been stolen and carried off
by the wolf when au infant, and was fed,
cared for and brought up in the wolfish
way by his adopted mother. The boy is
named “-Saturday,” that being the clay
he was rescued from the wild animal’s
den. At first raw meat was the food he
most relished ; he was quite wild and in
tractable. Gradually he was tamed,
taught to walk properly, and subjected
to other necessary usages of human civil
ized life. But beyond the expression of
a very few words, language could not be
imparted to him. He is evidently half
idiotic, though he understands commands
addressed to him, and makes known his
own wants by simple ejaculations and
signs. He makes his salaams to stran
gers, and enjoys attentions paid to him.
* He has by no means an unpleasant face,
and there is not a mark of the beast about
him except in the scar-prints of his
mother wolf, which he points out upon
his cheek. The case is a curious one,
and attracted not a little attention at the
time throughout the world. It was then
supposed he possessed capacity for im
provement and education, but the efforts
ol years to teach him have met with very
little success.
Hit By a Meteor.
An intelligent black boy was trudging
along a highway at night in the viciuitv
of Palestine, Texas, There was a negro
woman riding a horse in the same direc
tion the boy was going. The two, or
rather three—two negroes and the horse
—were in company. The intelligent
black boy reappeared in Palestine that
night out of breath and as pale as he
could get. He said he saw a bail of fire
come out of the sky and strike the wo
man and set her ablaze. The horse ran
one way with the woman afire on his
back, and he ran back to town to tell the
people what had happened. The people
went to look after further particulars of
this curious incident. They found the
woman lying on the ground with all her
clothing burned off, but with life enough
in her to tell that she had been struck in
the breast by a ball of fire. The horse
was found with his maine singed, and
the woman died next day. The people
thiuk she was hit by a meteor.
—The Mormons propose to have a
Centennial of their own at Salt Lake.
Wqt #§ktH)®tjpc €cljo.
BY T. L. GANTT.
SAVED FROM SUICIDE.
A FRESCH SKETCH.
Midnight was past, and the lights of
the vessels lying at anchor in the stream
were begining to be extinguished, when
two men hurried from different directions
towards the shore. The elder of the two
had already reached the strand and was
preparing to make a leap, the design of
which was not to be mistaken ; but at
that instant the younger seized him by
the arm, exclaiming ; Sir, I believe you
want to drown yourseli!
You have guessed it. What is that to
you?
This was the answer, spoken in a most
angry tone.
Nothing, I know. I would simply re
quest you to wait a few minutes— when
if you like, we will make the great jour
ney together, arm in arm—the best way
of dying.
With these words the younger extend
ed his hand to the elder, whose was not
held. The younger continued, in a tone
of seeming enthusiasm :So be it! Arm
in arm! Truly, I did not dream that a
human heart would beat with mine in
this last hour. I will not seek to know
whom you are—an honest man or a vil
lian. Come, let us begin the journey to
gether !
The elder held the young man back,
and,fixing his dim,half-extinguished eyes
searchingly upon the countenance of his
companion, exclaimed : Hold 1 You
seem to me too young to end your life by
suicide. A man of your years has still a
brilliant, alluring future in his grasp !
Brilliant ? answered the young
man, scornfully. What have Ito hope
in the midst of a world of wickedness,
falsehood, treachery and unhappiness?
Come!—quick !
You are still young ! You must have
had very sorrowful experience to make
life already thus unsupportable to you.
I despise mankind.
Without exception ?
Without exception.
Well, then, you have now perhaps
found a man whom you will not necessa
rily despise. I have, believe me, during
myUhoie life, lived an honorable man.
Really ! That is highly interesting.
It’s a pity I had net earlier made your
acquaintance.
Leave me to die alone, young man.
Live on. Believe me, time heals all
wounds, and there are men of honor yet
to be found.
Now, if you take this view, why are
you hurrying so fast from tne world ?
Oh, I am an old, sickly man, unable to
make a livelihood ; a man who cannot,
will not longer see his only child, his
daughter, blighting youth, and laboring
day and night to support him.
How, sir ! Have you a daughter who
does this for you ? asked the young man,
surprised.
And with what endurance, with what
love, does she sacrifice herself for me!
She works for me, she goes hungry for
me, and has only the tenderest words of
love—a sweet tender smile for me al
ways.
And you want to commit suicide ? Are
you mad ?
Shall j murder my daughter? The
life which she is now leading is her cer
tain death, answered the old man, in a
despairing voice.
Good sir, come with me to the nearest
inn that is still open. You will relate to
me your history, and, if you like I will
let you heat - mine. So much, however,
will I sav to you beforehand : Chase all
thoughts of self-murder out of your head.
I am rich, henceforth you and your
daughter shall lead a pleasant life.
The old man followed the younger
without opposition. A few minutes la
ter the elder began :
My history is soon told. I was a mer
chant’s clerk, but always unlucky. As I
had nothing by inheritance and the
young girl I married was poor, I was
never able to commence business on my
own account and remained on to an old
age in a despondent, subordinate posi
tion. Finally I was discharged on ac
count of my years, and then began the
struggle for subsistence. My. wife died
of trouble, and now my poor child is
wearied to gain my support. I cannot
bear to see her working herself to death
for me—therefore, it is better I go. Now,
you know all.
Friend, exclaimed the young man,
you are the most fortunate man I ever
encountered in my life. It is insane to
call that misfortune. To-morrow I will
make my will, and you shalt be—no re
sistance! —my heir. The coming night
is my last. Before this, however, I must
see your daughter, out of pure curiosity.
I would for once see how one looks who
really deserves the name of woman!
Ifot, young man, what can it be that
thlPearly has made you so unhappy ?
queried the elder, much moved.
I believe it was the wealth which my
father left me. I was the only son of
the richest banker of this city. My fa
ther died five years ago, leaving me
more than was good for me. Since that
time I have been deceived and betrayed
by every one, without exception, with
whom I have had any connection. Some
have pretended friendship for me—on
account of my money. Others have pre
teaded to love me—again for my money;
and so it went on. I often mingled, in
the garb of a simple workman, with the
masses, and thus one day became acquain
ted with a charming being, a young girl,
to whom my whole heart soon went out
in love . I disclosed neither my name
nor my position. I longed to be loved
for myself alone, and for a time it ap4
peared as if I were going to be happy—
at last, at last!
The young girl and I, whom she still
regarded as a simple workman, met ev
ery afternoon on the Marcusplatz, where
we walked up and down together passing
many happy hours. One day my dear
girl appeared with red eyes—she had
been weeping—and told me that we must
part, confessing that her life belonged to
another 1 With these words she tore her
self from me and disappeared in the
crowd. Her faithlessness decided my
destiny. Vainly did I rush in the pleas
ures which so-called good society has to
offer, but found my lost peace of soul
never, never! I then determined to
bring my joyless existence to a close.
Unhappy young man, said the older,
wiping his eyes ; from my whole heart I
pity you. I must acknowledge that I
was more fortunate than yon, for I, at
least, was by two women—my wife and
daughter—tenderly loved.
Will you give me your address, good
sir. that I may convince myself of the
truth of your story? It is not exactly my
CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 3, 1876.
trust, but I see to believe. To-morrow I
will arrange my affairs as I have already
told you. You will remain at this inn
to-night, and in the morning early I will
return. Give me your word of honor
that you will not leave this house until I
come back, and that you will not in the
meantime speak to any one of what has
taken place between us ?
\ou have my word! Go to my dwell
ing to my daughter, and you will find
that I have told you but the simple
truth. My name is Wilhelm Balms.
Here is my address.
With these words he handed the young
man a paper, giving the address of bis
dwelling. It lay in a suburb inhabited
by the poorer classes, at some distance
from the city proper.
And my name is Carl Toedor, here
upon said the young man. Take this
bank note; it will serve you till my re
turn.
Carl rang for the waiter, had the land
lord called, commended the old man to
his care in suitable terms, and left the
house.
******
Hardly had the morning broke when
Carl found himself on his way to the
suburb where lived the daughter of the
old man with whom he had become ac
quainted under such peculiar circum
stances. It was a poor place. The young
man knocked, opened the door, and in
voluntarily stepped back.
The young girl whose inconstancy had
made his life a burden unbearable stood
before him I
She had grown pale—very pale; but
he knew her at first glance ; it was Ber
tha, whom he had once hoped to call his
own.
At his first appearance the young girl
sprang toward him, overcome with joy,
holding out her little hand. The young
man waived her back, exclaiming:
You did not expect to see me ?
The poor girl sank into a seat and cov
ered her pale, beautiful face with her
hands.
Are you Wilhelm Salm’s daughter ?
asked the young man, coldly, after a
pause.
I am, maiden, timidly.
And who and where is that other to
whom, as you told me at parting, your
life belonged.
That other is my father, answered the
young girl, looking up to the young man
with a glance in which spake the teuder
estlove.
With lightning quickness the truth
dawned upon him ; the scales fell from
his eyes.
Speechless he rushed to Bertha, took
her in his arms and pressed her to his
breast.
Come to your father, he faltered.
My father! Oh, Heaven! I forgot!
Where is he ? He has been out all night.
I have watched for him in tears the long
night through.
Your father is saved. He is with me,
was Carl’s answer as he hurried the
young girl out and through the streets to
the arms of her father.
A fortnight later, and in the midst of
the greatest splendor, the marriage of
the rich young banker, Carl Toedor, to
Bertha Salms, took places.
Some Modern Sayings.
Honesty is the best policy, unless you
can get about one hundred thousand dol
lars and effect a settlement at fifty per
cent.
Honor thy father and thy mother, par
ticularly about circus time when you
don’t know where to raise twenty-five
cents.
Never go in debt when you can avoid
it. It is better to go snubbing around
in a broadcloth coat than to be in debt
to your tailor for a suit of Scotch mixed.
Love thy neighbor as thyself. Borrow
his plough, hoe or horse whenever yon
can; but if he wants to borrow yours, tell
him that you are sorry, that you were
just going to use them yourself.
Be guarded in your conversation.
There are times when you may freely
express your opinion on a political candi
date but you had better wait until his
friends are over in the next county visit
ing.
Respect old age. If you have a maid
en aunt thirty-three years old and she is
passing herself for a girl of twenty, there
is no excuse for you to expose her. The
more you respect her age and keep still
about it, the more she will respect you.
Never marry for wealth, but remember
that it is just as easy to love a girl who
has a brick house, with mansard roof and
silver plated door bell, as one who has
an auburn head and an angelic disposi
tion.
Remember that appearances are often
deceiving. Many a paie, thin young la
dy will eat more corned beef than a
blacksmith.' Because you fined her in
the parlor playing the piano, it is no
sign that her mother is not at the corner
grocery running in debt for a peck of po
tatoes.
The Serpent and the Woman.
In the New Church (Swedenborgian)
Temple, in East Thirty-fifth street, yes
terday, the Rev. Chauucy Giles preached
on “ The temptation and the fall.” He
said that by the serpent in Genesis was
meant the sensual principal of man, and
by the woman his self-love. The former
appealing to the latter, caused man to
arrogate, as self-derived, his life and fac
ulties, which are from the Lord alone.
This turning from the Lord constituted
the fall, and was a gradual process, ex
tending through ages. Man was endow
ed with senses and a soul, one represen
ting the material and the other the spir
itual world. These senses represented
the serpent, for they constantly held out
inducements to satisfy his sensual ambi
tion and cravings, and hourly prompted
him that he was in himself,a goid. When
a strong desire grows in a man for the
possession of an object, he argues within
himself, sometimes, that perhaps he is
sinning, and that God will cast him from
grace as he did our first parents should
he persist in gaining that object: but the
subtle serpent is ever ready to whisper,
“Is the object not a good one, and does
not God know it is? Why then hesi
tate in gaining its possession, by Which
you may become wise ?” Then by greed
and craving mankind falls. —Neva York
Sun,
—A young lady residing in the West
was presented with a handsome Bible,
on one of the fly-leave3 of which were
written the following lines —far more
truthful than poetical:
“ I present you with the only thing, dear Miss,
That Plymouth pastor refuses to kiss.”
ALL SORTS.
THE NEWS OF THE DAY IN A JTT7T-SHELL
—Charlotte Cushman is dead.
—Whiskey is $1 a drink at the Black
Hills.
—The Democrats have swept Texas
by 50,000 majority.
—Reverdy Johnson’s life is said to be
insured for SIOO,OOO.
—A Jewish Rabbi has been preaching
in a New Haven Methodist pulpit
—The average salary ©f Methodist
preachers in North Carolina is $535.
—The wreck of an emigrant ship is re
ported, with 800 coolies on board, of
whom only 20 were saved.
—A California miner recently made
$300,000 in one day; and it wasn’t a
good‘day for digging, either.
—While boreing for oil at Seaviile,
some men struck a piece of oak timber
at a depth of forty-seven feet.
—A little girl in Newberry, S. C., has
been using constantly the same needle
in her sewing machine for nearly five
years.
—A pair of Japanese coolies will trav
el from forty to sixty miles a day, and
draw a full-grown man, in a kind of two
wheeled gig.
—Babcock, Grant’s priv ate secretary,
has been acquitted of the charge of com
plicity with the “ crooked” whiskey man
ufacturers of St. Louis.
—Glasgow has the tallest chimney in
the world. It is 468 feet high, and 1,400,-
000 bricks were used in its erection. It
will not be sent to the Centennial.
—A noble Omaha mastiff has saved
the lives of three children within a
month past, and bitten fourteen men
who called to sell a patent clothes-bar.
—Warren Parker, of Adrian, Mich.,
has bid for distinction in meanness by
forging the name of one sweetheart to a
a note, and using the money so obtained
in eloping with her mother.
—A Boston grocer was telling a news
paper man that it was simply throwing
away money to advertise, when the sher
iff came in and shut up the store. Retri
bution is always loafing around.
•—lt is announced that a Mormon tab
ernacle is to be erected in Brooklyn, to
be used by the Society of Latter Day
Saints in that city. Wouldn’t it be
cheaper to go in “ cahoot” with Ply
mouth Church ?
—Professor Denton says that the
mount builders were Mexicans, who
came North for copper, and that the
American Indians are descendants of
Asiatics, who came over when America
and Asia were connected by land.
—The body of Si<po Keller, cremated
at Milan, was placed upon a sort of grid
iron surrounded by flames given off from
217 jets of gas, a receptacle being placed
beneath to receive the ashes. The cere
mony lasted an hour and a half.
—John Laight, aged seventy-three,
and Sarah Coons, aged seventy, were
married lately in Somerset, Ky. They
had, in 1848, been husband and wife, but
had quarrelled and separated by divorce,
and subsequently each had been married
twice.
—The huge bullion scales in the Car
son (Nev.) mint are so delicately adjust
ed that the difference in weight between
a gray and brown hair from the same
person’s head can be readily determin
ed, a recent test showing the difference
to be two-millionths of a grain.
—Three men were shot in a row at a
ball at Gaudaloupe, Cal. One of them
refused to stop dancing until a physician
arrived, and then only long enough to
have the bullet extracted from his back ;
buL upon trying to dance again, he fell
ana died.
—At Logansport, Ind., last week, while
several children were playing together,
the four-year-old daughter of Eliza Wag
oner thrust her tongue through the crack
of the room door, which one of her play
mates instantly slammed too, cutting off
nearly one-half of the member.
—There are 45,000 men and women
and 72,000 children who live in the canal
boats on the English rivers and canals.
Of these 26,000 men and women liye as
husbands and wives without being mar
ried, and have 40,000 illegitimate chil
dren. Ninety-five per cent, can neither
read nor write.
—An eminent physician of a Western
city says he has cured ninety-nine
out of every hundred cases of scarlet fe
ver by giving the patient warm lemonade
with gam arabic dissolved it in. A cloth
wrung out in hot water and laid upon the
stomach should be removed as rapidly
as it becomes cool.
—sCroup may be cured in a minute,
and the remedy is simply alum and sugar.
The way to accomplish the act is to take
a knife or grater and shave off in small
particles about a teaspoonful of alum,
then mix it with about twice its quantity
of sugar, to make palatable, and admin
ister as quick as possible. Almost in
stantaneous relief will follow.
—John A. Murrell, the great western
horse-thief and pirate, died near Sparta,
Tennessee, a reformed man a*id a mem
member of the Methodist Church, in
good standing. He denied on his death
bed ever having committed a murder.
He was well educated and had a splen
did library. A few nights after he was
buried the grave was re-opened, and his
head taken away, by whom it was never
known.
—The Detroit Free Frets saysl that a
manufacturer of that city one night re
cently dreamed that his warerooms were
in flames. The dream awoke him, and
as he was unable to go to sleep again, he
at last decided to go to the building and
satisfy himself that there was no danger.
Arriving at his place of business he
found the private watchman locking the
back door which bad been open, and a
policeman extingnisiing a fire in the
hall, which had been saturated with ker
osene oil and set on fire.
—According to a Brazilian correspon
dent, that empire must be the paradise
of criminals. Murderers and robbers
cannot be arrested unless taken in the
act, and it is not rare to meet with mon
sters going at large who are known to
have killed a number of people. Should
a man be murdered, his relatives must
prosecute, if they have money enough;
the authorities will not act of their own
accord. Of seventy-two prisoners iii the'
House of Detention in Perrtambuco,
twenty-nine were in prison for murder,
and thirtv-one for subbing aq<i attemp
ting to kill,
SWEETMEATS.
7b Woman, voted by the Press
Delightful, coy, and fond of Dress.
POSITIVELY NO GENTLEMEN ADMITTED.
—Perpetual motion : Wo—n’s tongue.
—Female suffrage : A No. 16 corset on
a No. 20 woman.
—Babies are not fashionable in Paris,
though weddings are frequent.
—Vesuviana is the fashionable name
for red-headed girl babies this season.
—Four boxes govern the world—the
cartridge-box, the ballot-box, the jury
box, and the band-box.
—James Parton is the only man in
Massachusetts who ever held the situa
tion of husband to his mother-in-law.
—Emily Faithful advises females not
to marry until they are twenty-five years
old. They never do—unless they get a
chance.
—A New York chap, who went to
church with his girl, hung his hat on
her bustle, which came up over the top
of the seat.
—A man in Virginia goes to school to
his wife. It’s needless to say that he
catches more lickings than any other boy
in school.
—Ladies are now wearing belts with
steel points projecting at intervals, so as
to prevent anybody stealing their arms
around the waist.
—The word girl is found twice in the
Bible. One of the verses reads thus:
“ And the streets of the city shall be full
of girls and boys playing in the streets
thereof.”
—Mrs. Snyder, of Cairo, hid behind
the door and jumped out to give her
husband a glad surprise. The cigar in
his mouth jammed into her eye, and she
is now seeking a divorce.
■ —An instance of throwing one’s self
about was witnessed a few evenings ago
at a party in the case of a young lady,
who, being asked to sing, first tossed her
head and then pitched her voice.
—An editor, speaking of a steamboat,
says : “She had twelve berths in the la
dies’cabin.” “Oh! dear me,” exclaim
ed Mts. Partington, upon reading this;
“ what an awful lot of squalling there
must have been 1”
—Nothing is calculated to make a
young man more deliberate lhan the
spectacle of seventeen pairs of striped
stockings hanging on the clothes-line of
a house where there is only one young
lady in the family.
—A pious New Jersey dame has stop
ped praying for her husband because, as
she says, “ I have prayed so long without
effect that I think the Lord has just as
poor an opinion of that man as I have.”
—The Leap-Year necktie for gentle
men is out. We have not seen it, but
expect it is a young lady’s sleeve, with
an arm in it, all the way around
the neck. Every enterprising young
gentlemen should have one.
—lt is said by good authorities that
the ladies in the late Women’s Congress
not only talked sensibly and effectively,
but actually spoke one at a time. If
this is really true, the future of woman
in this country is bright indeed.
—At a marriage of an Alabama wid
ower, one-of the servants was asked if
his master would take a bridal tour.
“ Dunno, sah ; when old missus alive he
took paddle to her ; dunno if he take a
bridle to the new one or not.”
—The men and women dress so much
alike in Cochin China, that it is danger
ous to slap a man on the shoulder and
remark : “ Come, old fellow, let’s drop
in'here and indulge in a smile.” It may
be the old fellow’s mother-in-law, you
know.
—A St. Joseph paper regrets that it
cannot, by “ the widest process of versi
fication,” possibly make “ rhinoceros”
rhyme with “Queen Elizabeth,” or “ga
zelle” with “sewing machine,” and so
has to respectfully decline a poem by one
of the most talented of St. Joseph’s fair
daughters.
—A little fellow being told by a young
man to get off his knee, that he was too
heavy to hold in that way, made quite a
sensation among the persons present by
yelling back, “ Too heavy, hey? Sister
Sal weighs a hundred pounds more than
I, and you held her ou your knee four
hours last night.”
—“ It will certainly shorten your life,
Harry, if you continue to smoke so
much.” “ I don’t know that,” replied
the gentleman, “ there’s my father who
smokes every blessed day, and now he’s
seventy years of age.” “ Well,” was the
reply, “if he hadn’t smoked he might
have been eighty.”
—Recently the local paper at Grass
Valley said : “The prettiest girl in Grass
Valley doesn’t carry herself straight
enough when promenading.” For a
week after the Green Valley girls stalk
ed about like so many bean poles ; and
every girl said, “ That horrid paper ; Ma,
don’t I walk straight ?”
—“ What am I made of?” asked a
young lady of the head ot her Sunday
school class. “ I don’t know,” was the
honest reply. “ What does your mamma
sweep up from the floor?” was the first
speaker’s next trial in tbeSocratic meth
od. “ Pins, needles, hairpins and trash”
was the prompt but unexpected response.
—Young ladies may find a hint in the
following advertisement, which comes
from the East: “ I want a wife. She
mast be a good looking blonde of an
affectionate disposition, must have a su-
Krior education, including a good know-
Ige of music. No ‘ Maiden’s Prayer ’
or ‘Silver Threads’ kind of a girl will do.”
—A Frenchman who had purchased a
country seat was complaining of the want
of birds in his garden. “ Set some traps,”
replied an officer, “ and they will come.
I was once in Africa, and there wasn’t
supposed to be a woman within two hun
dred miles. I hung a pair of earrings
and a bracelet upon a tree, and the next
morning I found two women under the
branches.”
—The mistre&of a summer boarding
house in an interior town, finding herself
one day quite' at leisure, in consequence
of the absence' of her patrons on an ex
cursion, repaired to a neighbors for a
chat. “ I should think you would feel |
lonesome io have your boarders away I
so,” sstid her neighbor. “ Well,” she j
replied, “I do feel kinder lonesome, but :
it’s ft good lonesome. It seems just as it i
did when I waafust a wkkfor.”
VOL. 11--N0.21.
IV JEW
CARPETS
SHADES, ETC.,
—AT—
Very Low Prices!
In order to reduce stock
we offer the following de
sirable goods at New
York quotations for 60
days :
New Patterns Brussels Carpets,
Just opened.
NEW WINDOW' SHADES,
All sizes, from $1 upwards.
NEW' CIIROJIOS.
200 New Chomos just opened.
CRUMB CLOTHS,
All sizes, i't cost to close out lot.
COCOA MATTINGS,
Striped and plain.
NEW' 3-PLY CARPETS,
From $1.25 to $1.50 per yard.
W'all Papers and Borders, Pa
per Shades and Side Eights,
5,000 rolls new patterns opened this week.
Hearth Rugs and Door Mats,
New, pretty and cheap.
Ottomans and Hassocks,
500 at $1 each.
New Ingrain Carpets,
From 50c. per yard up to the best Scotch.
Genuine English Floor Oil Cloth
24 feet wide, cut any size.
Table Oil Cloth and Covers,
Iu all colors and widths.
Cheap Carpets,
20 rolls at 25 to 40c. a yard.
Oil Cloth Rugs and Mats,
Of all sizes.
FLOOR OIL CLOTH,
From 3 to 18 feet wide, pretty and cheap.
Stair Carpets, Stair Rods and Pads,
Stair Oil Cloth and Stair lAnen ,
Lace Curtains, Dice Lombraquins,
Wind me Cornices and Bands,
French Terrys, Reps and Damasks,
Picture Cords, Loops and Nails,
Piano Covers and Table Covers,
Fringes ond Gimps , all colm's.
Curtain Loops and Table Mats,
Drapery and Lambraquin Tassels, and
many other goods both useful and desirable,
for sale cheaper than ever before, by
JASI BAILIE &BRO.,
205 Broad Street, Augusta.
feblß-3m
240 BROAD STREETJUGUSTA, GA.
Origiil Augusta Music Store
Established 1848 by GEO. A. OATES,
TYTHERE CAN BE FOUND AT ALL TIMES A FINE
V V assortment of First-class Piano Fortes and Organs
all with the maker’s names attached (no fancy names used),
and warranted for any reasonable length of time, for Touch’
Tone and long standing in Tune, and will be sold at reasona
ble prices for Cash, or part Cash and balance in Monthly In
stallments. He can refer to hundreds to whom he has sold.
All kinds of Music and Musical Merchandise always on hand
such as Violins, Guitars, Flutes, Aecordeons, etc. pyr He is
agent for Steinwur & Son’s and Bacon & Karr’s (formerly Ba
con & Raven) Celebrated PIANOS. octlO-tf
GEORGE A. OATES
DEALER IN
SCHOOL AND MISCELLANEOUS
BOOKS.
AND STATIONERY, and everything else
kept in a first-class Book Store.
SCHOOLS supplied at reasonable prices.
BLANK BOOKS in great variety.
GILDING, LOOKING-GLASS
PICTURE FRAMES!
0
Patronize Home Industry,
rpilE ONLY GILDING ESTABLISH
JL MENT in the State where Gold Frames
can be made from the beginning, and all
kinds of old gilt frames can be regilt and
made equal to new. All work warranted as
good and as cheap for the same kind as in
any city in the United States. OLD PAINT
INGS restored and relieved. A large stock
of CHUOMOS always on hand. Send on
your work and satisfaction guaranteed. Look
ing-Glasses. both French and English, fur
nished at Manufacturer’s prices.
70S- Refers to the Editor of OOLKTHORPK
Echo.
GEORGE C. OATES,
seplO-tf 240 Broad st., Augusta, Ga.
f. Richards & Bro.
—AND—
L. RICHARDS & BRO.,
Proprietors of the Fredericksburg Dry Goods
Store, 310 Broad street, AUGUSTA, GA.
Also, at their BRANCH HOUSE,
next door to J. G. Bailie & Bro’s
Carpet Store, keep at ail
times a large assortm’t Of
DRY GOODS!
And upon application will send SAMPLES
of any Goods that can be sampled, and if
an order is sent them to the amount
of $lO or over for goods m their
Retail Department, they will
pay the Express Freight
on the package.
fcbiS-3 GIVE THEM A TRIAL;
THE OGLETHORPE ECHO
ADVERTISEMENTS.
First insertion (per inch space) $1 00
Each subsequent insertion 75
A liberaldiscount allowed those advertising
for a longer period than three mouths. Card
of lowest contract rates.ran be had cu appli
cation to the Proprietor.
Local Notices 15c. per line first insertion,
and 10c. per line thereafter.
Tributes of Respect, Obituaries, etc., 50c.
ocr inch. Announcements, SS, in advance-.
AUGUSTA ADVERTISEMENTS.
Augusta Crockery Store.
T. C. BLIGE,
Importer and Dealer in
CHINA, CLASS,
EARTHENWARE,
And House Furnishing Goods!
No. 297 Broad Street,
Two doftrs below V. Richards A Bro.,
feblß-3m AUGcSTA. GA.
ECHOL’S
Raw-Bone Superphosphate!
Dissolved Animal Bones and Ammonia.
GUARANTEED ANALYSIS
Moisture (dot. at 100 per cent., 7.362
Organic Matter 33.128
Cap. of producing of Ammonia 3.140 i
Inorganic Matter 59.510
100.000
Consisting of Sol. Thos. Acid 4.916
Preeip. “ “ 3.550
Or Bone Phos. of Liine, ren’d soluble... 10.732
“ “ precipitated 7.750
Total available Pirns. Acid 18.482
Prof. G. A. 1.1F.81G, Analytical Chemist.
If this Fertilizer fails to come up to the
above analysis, no charge will be made for*,
same. It has no superior as a Cotton produ
cer at the price: Cash. SSO; Time, $55
or S6O, with Cotton option of 15 cent*.
ALSO,
Echol’s Acid Phosphate!
For Composting with Cotton Seed. Cash
price, $35; Time, S4O. Cotton option, 15c.
leb4-2rn ECHOLS & CO.. Augusta, Ga. -
PLATT BROTHERS,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
Parlor Suits, Pham her Sets,
Couches, Mattresses, Extension and Marble
Top Tables, and every character
and stvle of
FURNITURE t
21 1 and 214 Broad st., AUGUSTA, Ga.
Agent for tlieNi tional Wire Not Mattress.
feb!B-lm ,
AUGUSTA PAINT AND OIL STORE!
53 JACKSON STREET, AUGUSTA, GA.
THE BEST OF ARTICLES! ALL FRESH AND NEW!
WHITE LEAD, ZINC, PAINTS, BRUSHES, VARNISH, PUTTY.
COLORS, LINSEED OIL WINDOW GLASS,
MACHINE OIL, GIN OIL, KEROSENE OIL, Etc., Etc.
Terms —CASH ON DELIVER Y; or Approved City Acceptance.
GEO... D.. CONNOR, "JtfSS
Augusta Hotel.
Corner Broad and Washington streets,
AUGUSTA, GA/
Passengers arriving on the Charlotte, Co
lumbia <fe Augusta ; Wilmington, Columbia.
& Augusta ; or South Carolina Railroads, can
get off at corner of Broad street, within ted
steps of this Hotel.
Rates $3 per dav;
FRED S. MOSHER,'Proprietor.
JOSIAH MOSHER, Superintendent.
: V©-Speeial arrangements with Commer
cial men and all conveniences afforded;
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CRAWFORD ADVERTISEMENTS. -
NOTICE TO PLANTERS^
LOT OF EXTRA IMPROVED
Simpson Mi Seed!
For sale at FIFTY CENTS per Bushel.
Apply to L. M. JOHNSON.
jan27-3m Crawford. Os^-
Cheatham's Champion Prolific
COTTON SEED.
For sale by C. S. HARGROVE.
The Farmer’s Friend.
Tlie Best and Cheapest
Guano Distributor
offered to the Planters. For sale bv
fcbiK-tf C. S. II AP/IROVE. -
Drugs, Dentistry.
Being permanently located at CRA WFORD,’
GA., I aw now prepared to do all kinds of
DENTAL WORK!
at short notice, in the best style and oti niod-,
erate terms. My references are those who
have kindly favored me with theit patronage/
Having also opened a|
DRUG STORE!
I am prepared to supply Physicians with all
STANDARD MEDICINES!
and the public wi;h all such articles in the.
Drug Line usually needed in families, inclu
ding a full line of
Leading Medicines,
Patent Medicines,*
VAINTS, OILS;
Lamps', Chimneys, Perfumery, Stationery,'
Soaps, Toilet Articles, Cigars, TOBACCO /
Blue Stone, &c., Sue. ;
When you have given me a trial and fhiletl
to do ** Well or better than elsewhere, I will,
not complain if yon withdraw your patron
age.
M. H. THOMAS, M. D*
DRUGGIST AND DENTIST!