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LEGAL NOTICES.
EXECUTORS’ SALE OF 1
REAL ESTATE.
BY virtue of an order from the Court of Ordi
nary of Oglethorpe county, & by authority
granted in the last will and testament of Zach
arian H. Clark, deceased, late of said county,
will be sold on the FIRST (Ist) TUESDAY
IN NOVEMBER next, before the
Court House door, in the town of Lexing
ton, between the legal hours of sale, the fol
lowing described LANDS, belonging to the
estate of the late Z. H. Clark, to-wit:
First, one Tract of Land, known as the
MILL TRACT, containing 64i acres, on
which is situated the Grist Mill. The Mill
House was built of brick and stone, within
the last two years, with new shingle roof. The
inside machinery is all new and in complete
order, running one four-foot wheat mill and
one corn mill, same size ; all propelled by a
twenty-foot water wheel. The water power
has a fall, by actual survey, of twenty-nine
feet.
—AI.SO—
The stock of HOGS which have been raised
around the mill, belonging to said estate,
about thirty in number, will be sold on the
same day the mill is sold, at the same time
and place, for cash.
—AI.SO —
A Tract of LAND, known as No. 1, contain
ing 3151 acres, being a part of the original
mill tract, adjoining lands of D. H. Johnson
and others.
—ALSO—
A tract of LAND known as tract No. 2, con
taining 309 acres, this being a part of the orig
inal mill tract also, and joins lands of D. H.
Johnson, James Christian and others.
These two tracts are in a good state of culti
vation, with very good tenant houses and set
tlements on both.
—ALSO —
The following TOWN PROPERTY in the
town of Lexington:
The HOUSE and LOT on Church street,
containing two acres, more or less, now occu
pied by Dr. Brawner. The house contains
seven rooms, with fire-place to each. This
lot is well enclosed, has a tine well of water,
and is a desirable place to live.
—ALSO—
One HOUSE and LOT adjoining the last
named, on same street, containing one acre,
more or less. The house is a comfortable two
roomed building, framed, with two fire-places.
One-half interest in a fine well of water be
longs to this lot.
—ALSO—
One HOUSE and LOT on same street, with
improvements similar to the last described,
containing one acre, more or less, with half
interest in the well of water, which is located
directly on the line dividing the two lots.
These last named two lots are occupied by
colored families.
—ALSO —
One HOUSE and LOT in said town, on the
street leading to Antioch, known as the Lan
dram or Ham lot, and was occupied last year
by Mr. Win, Edwards. This lot contains one
acre, more or less, with a comfortable dwel
ling house, now vacant. The OFFICE of Dr.
Z. P. Landrum, on said lot, is now occupied
by a colored man.
—ALSO—
Will be sold in the town of Blakely, Early
•county, Georgia, on the FIRST TUESDAY
IN DECEMBER next,before the Court House
door, within the legal hours of sale, one Tract
-of LAND, containing 600 acres, more or less,
adjoining lands of Walter Sheffield and oth
ers, comprising lots 343, 334, and part of lot
342.
TERMS OF SALE.
For the Mill and 644 acres of Land, one
half the purchase money will be required in
-cash, the balance on twelve months’ credit,
with interest from day of sale at 10 per cent,
per annum ; the purchaser to take the unex
pired contract with the present miller for two
months. Possession will be given within ten
days from day of sale. Bond for titles will be
given until the last payment is made in full.
Tracts Nos. 1 and 2 will be sold for one
third cash, the balance on twelve months’
credit, with interest at 8 per cent, from the
day possession is given, which will be done as
soon as the crops can be gathered and sold.
The Town Property will be sold for one
third cash, balance on twelve months’ credit,
with interest at 8 per cent. Possession will
be given to the Town Property at Christmas.
The Wild Lands in Early county will be
sold on same terms as tracts Nos. 1 and 2.
Bonds will be given for titles, as in the ease of
the mill place.
Plats of the Mill tract, and tracts of Nos. 1
and 2. can be seen at the Clerk’s office, Supe
rior Court, Lexington, Ga.
JOHN G. GIBSON,] E t
H. A. HAYES, j xecmors
[Printer’s fee, s62]
NOTICE.
EXECUTOR’S SALE OF LAND.
BY VIRTUE OF AN ORDER from the
Court of Ordinary of Oglethorpe county,
Georgia, the undersigned, Executor of Benja
min B. Waller, late of said county, deceased,
vrill sell, before the Court House door, in the
town of Lexington, in said county, between
the lawful hours of sale, on the first TUES
DAY in November, 1876, the following de
scribed Lands, belouging to the estate of the
late Benjamin B. Waller, deceased, to-wit:
Ist. A tract of Land known as No. 1, con
taining 240 Acres, more or less, in said coun
ty, and adjoining lands of Emily Burt, Joe
Glenn, and land of said B. B. Waller, deceas
ed, known sis No. 2.
2d. A tract of Land known as No. 2, con
taining 190 Acres, more or less, in said coun
ty, and adjoining lands of Emily Burt, Joe
Glenn and lands of B. B. Waller, deceased,
known as Nos. 1 and 3 and the home lauds.
3d. A tract of Land known as No. 3, con
taining 140 Acres, more or less, in said coun
ty, and adjoining lands of Joe Glenn and
lands of said B. B. Waller, deceased, known
as Nos. 1 and 2 and the home lands.
Terms made known on the day of sale. Sold
for the benefit of the creditors and legatees of
said deceased. THOMAS J. WALLER,
Executor of B. B. Waller, deceased.
S.'otember 19th, 1876. [sl7j
EXECUTOR’S SALE OF LAND.
BY virtue of an order from the Court of
Ordinary of Eibert county, will be sold
on the first TUESDAY in November, at the
Court House door in Lexington, Oglethorpe
county, between the legal sale hours, the fol
lowing property, to-wit: One tract of Land in
said county, on Long creek, containing One
Hundred acres, more or less, joining lands of
L. M. Bell and others. Of the above, there is
Twenty acres woodland. Sold as the property
of the estate L. H. Smith, deceased, to pay
debts of said deceased, and for division.
THOMAS B. SMITH,
[Printer’s fee, s7] Executor of L. H. Smith.
TATE OF GEORGIA, OGLETHORPE
COUNTY. —Petition for Letters of Dis
mission. Whereas, C. W. Suns, one of the
administrators of John Sims, deceased, late of
said county —G. R. Sims having died— said C.
W. Situs now applies to me for Letters of Dis
mission from said estate —
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish
all persons concerned to show cause, if any
thev can, on or before the first Monday in
January, 1877, why said letters should’ not
be granted.
Given under my hand and official signature,
at office in Lexington, this 25th dav of Sept.,
1876. T. D. GILHAM,
[So] Ordinary.
Exemption of personalty
Georgia, Oglethorpe county. Court of
Ordinary, at Chambers, October 19th, 1876.
Johu fl. Martin, of said county, applies to
me for Exemption of Personalty, and I will
pass upon the same at my office m Lexington,
on Wednesday, the loth of November, 1876,
at 11 o’clock a. in. T. D. GILHAM,OnPy.
BY T. L. GANTT.
LEGAL NOTICES.
STATE OF GEORGIA, OGLETHORPE
COUNTY.—Petition for Letters of Guar
dianship. Mrs. Lula L. Bridges applies to
me for Letters of Guardianship of Jesse K.
Baker, minor son of W. D. Baker, deceased —
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish
all persons interested to show cause why said
Letters of Guardianship should not issue to
Mrs. Lula L. Bridges, in accordance with the
statute in such cases made and provided.
Given under my hand and official signature,
this October sth, 1876. T. D. GILHAM,
(s4*) Ordinary.
O TATE OF GEORGIA, OGLETHORPE
O COUNTY. —Thomas J. Edwards, admin
istrator on the estate of Thomas Edwards, de
ceased, applies for Leave to Sell Lands be
longing to estate of said deceased—
These are therefore to cite and admonish all
persons interested, to show cause, if any they
have, why leave should not be granted to said
Administiator to sell said Land on or before
the first Monday in November, 1876.
Given under my hand and official signa
ture, this October sth, 1876.
($4) T. D. GILHAM Ordinary.
OGLETHORPE SHERIFF’S SALE.
WILL be sold on the first TUESDAY in
December next, before the Court House
door, in the town of Lexington, Oglethorpe
county, within the legal hours of sale, a tract
of Land containing one hundred and twenty
seven acres, more or less, in Oglethorpe coun
ty, adjoining lands of M. H. Young, Matthew
I'. Jackson, and others. Levied on as the
property of the estate of Bur
nette Moore, deceased, by virtue of
a fi. fa. issued from the Superior Court of said
county, in favor of Wm. A Colclough vs. Ben
nette Moore, and one other fi. fa. in favor of
Langston, Crane & Hammock vs. Martha
Moore, administratrix of Bennette Moore, de
ceased.
Also, at the same time and place, a tract of
Land containing six hundred acres, more or
less, in Oglethorpe county, adjoining lands of
John Cobb, James Young and others, known
as the Hermon tract, and dower of Lucy
Lumpkin, deceased. Levied on as the prop
erty of the estate of George Lumpkin, deceas
ed, to satisfy two fi. fas. issued from the Supe
rior Court" of said county, one in favor of
Douglas C. Watson, executor ofWm. H. Bon
ner, deceased, for the use of Callender Lump
kin, executrix of Joseph H. Lumpkin, deceas
ed, vs. George Lumpkin, executor of George
Lumpkin, deceased. The other fi. fa. in fa
vor of F. J, Robinson, Ordinary, etc., for the
use of Robert R. Mitchell, administrator of
Jesse Bell, deceased, vs. Middleton P. Davis,
administrator of Wm. J. Davis, deceased,
principal, and George Lumpkin, executor of
George Lumpkin, deceased, security.
M. H. YOUNG, Dep’y Sheriff.
October 25th, 1876.
LOCA L A D VER TIS EM ENTS.
SEND 25c to G. P. Rowell & Cos., New York,
for Pamphlet of 100 pages, containing list
3000 newspapers, and estimates showing
cost of advertising. apr2B-ly
FALL AND WINTER MILLINERY
MRS. T. A. ADAMS, Broad street, Ath
ens, Ga., would announce to the ladies
of Oglethorpe and adjoining country that she
has just received her new Fall and Winter
Millinery, consisting of the very latest styles
in Hats, Bonnets, Ribbons, Laces, Flowers,
Feathers, etc. Prices very moderate. A call
solicited. oct6-3m
Why will You Pino Away?
Without a Parallel.— The demand for
Dr. J. Bradfield’s Female Regulator is be
yond precedent in the annals of popular rem
edies. Orders come in so thick and fast that
the Proprietor has heretofore been unable to
fill them all. He is happy to state that ar
rangements are now complete by which he
is prepared to manufacture Female Regulator
on a scale equal to the emergency, and the
public may feel assured,that their wants may
be supplied. Physicians of high repute are
using this great remedy in daily practice, all
over Georgia. Hereafter no woman need suf
fer from suppressed, suspended or irregular
menstruation. This valuable medicine is pre
pared by L. H, Bradfield, Druggist, Atlanta
Ga., and sold al $1.50 per bottle by respecta
ble druggists throughout America.
Hearty Blooming Widow.
Marietta, Ga., March 9, 1870.
Messrs. Bradfield & Cos. —You will please
ship another supply of your valuable Female
Regulator, and forward bill by mail. We
are"happy to state that this remedy gives bet
ter satisfaction than any article we sell. We
have been selling it since 1868, and witnessed
many remarkable cures by it. Among others,
there was a lady friend of ours who was sal
low and sickly until she was twenty-six years
old, when she was married. Her husband
lived two years and died. She continued in
bad health ; in fact, she has never been what
a woman ought to be. A few months after
the death of her husband she saw your adver
tisement, and came to our store and bought a
bottle of your Regulator from us, and took it
according to directions. It has cured her
sound and well, brought her regular monthly
periods on, and to-day she is a hearty, bloom
ing widow—with the use of but two bottles of
your Regulator, costing her only three dol
lars, when she had tried several physicians
and spent a great deal of money without any
benefit. Wishing you great success with
your valuable remedies, We are, respectful
ly yours, etc., W. Root & Sons.
- -
Dyspepsia.— Americans are particular
ly subject to this disease and its effects, such
as sour stomach, sick headache, habitual cos
tiveness, heartburn, waterbrash, coming up of
the food, coated tongue, disagreeable taste in
the mouth, palpitation of the heart, and all
diseases of the stomach and liver. Two doses
of Green’s August Flower will relieve you at
once, and there positively is not a case in the
United States it will not cure. If you doubt
this, go to your druggist. Dr. M. H. Thomas,
and get a sample bottle for 10 cents and try it.
Regular size, 75 cents.
One Hundred Thousand people
will cheerfully testify to the wonderful effica
cy of Dr. Gilder’s Liver Pills. They have
been used for more than half a century , but it
is only in the last few years that they have
been brought prominently before the general
public. And every day people are rejoicing
that at last they have found a pill that exact
ly meets their wants. Headache, dyspepsia,
constipation, indigestion, pains in the side or
back, and rnanv other ailments disappear
after taking the first dase of these pills. One
dose of pills and a few grains of quinine will
eftectuallv cure chills and fever. Gilder’s
Liver Pills are sold by all respectable mer
chants and druggists.
Distress in the East.
The crop prospects in Bombay become
daily more gloomy. The districts of
Khandeish, Nassick, Ahmednugger, Poo
nab, Sholapore, Kaladgi, and Dhurmar,
containing a population of nearly six mil
lions, are threatened with severe distress.
The local government estimates that over
200,000 persons must be releived in three
distrrets alone. It is stated that the
Monsoon crops have entirely failad, and
the absence of rain prevents the sowing
of the rubbee and winter crops. The
collector of Poonah reports that not a
single blade of grass is visible for miles.
The tanks and rivers are drying up, and
cattle are dying from starvation. The
Collector at Sholapore gives a still worse
report. The government has opened re
lief works, and is employing people in
excavatiug tanks and making roads.
—Among the most noted colored con
verts to Democracy is ex-Senator Rev
els, of Mississippi.
CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 3, 1876.
DEVILTRIES.
—Brigham Young acknowledges he loved
not wisely, but too often.
—What fruit does a newly-married couple
resemble ? A green pair.
—The striped stocking still holds its own,
which is a pretty nice thing to do.
—Lost: The bottom of the pocket in which
Carl Schurz carried the German vote.
—Metropolitan ballet girls get $4.50 a week.
This isn’t the thousandth part of a cent per
kick.
—A Vermont paper announces that it will
“ exchange a few tender-lines for spare-ribs or
sausages.”
—Sergeant Bates, the great flag carrier, has
been advised tocarrv the bloody shirt through
Sitting Bull’s domains.
—Why is the business men who don’t ad
vertise like Enoch Arden '! Because they don’t
see a sale from day to day.
—The verdict of a Kansas jury: “ Died of
a kick in the stomach from his wife, and he
never knew what hurt him.”
—Said a bachelor philosopher : “ My friend
conducted his future wife to the altar; and
here his leadership came to an end.”
—Quoting poetry and repeating Shakspeare
doesn’t possess half the attractions to win a
wife that a quart of warm roasted peanuts do.
—A Sacramento man, assailed with a raw
hide by a woman in the street, effectually bag
ged her by wrapping her head and arms in
her skirts.
—lt is the custom in Iceland for a man’s
inother-in-law to work out and support his
family, and in thatcountry no newspaper ever
slings any slurs at that estimable old lady.
—lt is said that the bite of a blackbird will
breed a ease of hydrophobia, and, all things
considered, no man is safe unless he goes down
a well and has a trap door shut upon him.
—A young lady who lately came out in
Goose Pond society, ate a bate of onions the
meal previous, and was spoken of as the
“ scenter of attraction” during the evening.
—A Shreveport (La) man lost an arm and
a diamond by the premature explosion of a
cannon last Thursday. He offers a reward of
SSO for the jewel, but does not say a word
about the arm.
—A clergyman not a thousand miles from
Augusta, after finishing his sermon and an
nouncing a temperance lecture, said he had
some cotton seed for sale, of anew variety,
which could be had at only $3 a bushel.
—A Maine woman ate four quarts of oys
ters at one sitting, and won one hundred dol
lars by so doing, which, after deducting eighty
dollars for her burial expenses, left her twen
ty dollars to commence the next world with.
—A bashful young man who lives in this
county, while out driving the dearest girl in
the world the other day, had to get out and
buckle the crupper, and hesitatingly explain
ed that the “ animal’s bustle had come loose.”
—lmportant correction in a Kentucky pa
per : “ The young lady who proposed to ride
bareback around the amphitheater at Glasgow
fair for anew bonnet assures us she meant that
the horse should be bareback, and not her
self.”
—When a Republican takes up a paper now
he opens it with a sickening fear of learning
of some new rascality of Hayes’, with very
much the same hesitation and anxious reluc
tance that a boy lifts up a board which he is
pretty certain covers a yellow jacket’s nest.
—An inquisitive young man visited a State
prison in New York, and among his questions,
asked a girl the cause of her being in such a
place. Her answer was that she stole a saw
mill, and went back to get the creek and was
arrested. The young gent left immediately.
—Some people seem to be extremely sensi
tive. At one of our churches, on Sunday, the
minister read the prayer for a person in deep
affliction, and a man who had just been mar
ried got up and went out. He said lie didn’t
want public sympathy obtruded on him in
that way.
—A careless man in Springfield, Mass., went
to the cellar and stuck the candle in what he
thought was a keg of black sand. lie sat near
it drinking wine until the candle burned low.
Nearer and nearer it got to the black sand ;
nearer and nearer until the blaze reached the
black sand, and as it was sand, nothing
happened.
—A Nebraska paper invitingly says : “Who
says farmers cannot grow rich in this State ?
Fifteen years ago a young man came here
without a dollar in the world. Last week he
went home, carrying with him the snug little
sum of one dollar and thirty-eight cents, the
savings of fifteen years of frugal life.” Come
West, young man, come West.
—Two brothers by the name of Pigg have
petitioned the St. Louis court for a change of
their name to Peake. They find it impossible
to get married, as no lady will consent to be
come a Pigg, and have all the neighbors ask
ing her, “ How is Mr. Pigg and all the little
Piggs ?” And more than this, they are an
noyed by bad boys singing under their win
dow, “ Big pig, little pig, root hog or die.”
—A Frenchman makes anew proposition.
He lias prepared a liquid which will almost
immediately petrify a human body, and if
that be nickel or electroplated, a very hand
some statue can be made. There could be no
question about the accuracy of the likeness.
If such petrification should become general,
people might build houses of bodies, and a
widow have the remains of her dear defunct
dug out for a bath-tub for the children.
—A worthy couple, during a violent thun
der storm, were discussing the cause and effect
of the forces cf nature. “ Who invented light
ning?” inquired the lady, “ Benjamin Frank
lin!” promptly replied the husband. At this
astonishing intelligence, the lady paused
awhile, as if reflecting upon the achievements
of the inventor, and finally manifested her
appreciation thereof by the exclamation,
“ Cussed fool, wasn’t he ?”
—The sad intelligence comes that the ou
rang-outang in the Berlin zoological garden
died recently of consumption. His loss is
deeply felt. As an ourang-outang he was an
ornament to his profession, and in the social
circle he shone pre-eminent. He was always
kind to the female chimpanzee, and toward
the gorilla showed no envy or petty spite. He
wore his whiskers in the style of the Kaiser,
and, though he hadn’t at the time of his death
evoluted his tail off, he was always manly in
his ways. In the midst of life we are in debt.
—A funny joke and all the more palatable
as its truth can be vouched for, says a New
Jersev paper, occurred at a prominent church
in that State. It seems that a worthy deacon
had been very industrious in selling anew
church book, costing 75 cents. At the service
in question the minister, just before dismiss
ing the congregation, rose and said : “ All you
who have children to baptize will please pre
sent them next Sabbath.” The deacon, who
by the way was a little deaf, having an eye on
selling the book, and supposing the pastor was
referring to them, immediately jumped up and
shouted: “All who haven’t can get as many
as you want by calling on me, at 75c. each.”
—This story is taken from an Atlanta pa
per: Early last week a negro, while walking
through a meadow, suddenly realized that he
was very tired, and straightway determined to
take a nap. So he got behind a haystack near
a fence, and was soon sound asleep. He not
only slept but snored, and snored with such
vehemence as to frighten a colored brother
who passed that way. The sound wasutterlv
unlike anything that the saunterer had ever
heard. He reconnoitered the haystack at a
safe distance, and saw what he thought was a
bear’s head, but which was in reality the No.
12 brogans of the sleeper. He ran off for his
gun, and summoned another negro to the
j chase The two sportsmen crammed their
guns with birdshot, and holding an entrench
ed position behind two trees, took aim at the
bear, shouted, and w hen the brogans moved
slightly, fired nervously but onlv too accu
rately. The hear not only growled but swore
and swore with eren greater volume than he
I had snored. The bird-shot in the bear was as
thick as caraway seed in a Christmas cookey.
t ,Tke above actually happened near Daltvu.
Written for the Echo,]
SHERMAN’S MARCH.
BY A CAROLINA LADY*.
All hail to mighty Sherman!
Hail to the countless host,
M liich left our gallant troops in rear,
And then, with valiant boast,
Marched thro’ a bleeding country,
For once not over fast,
And punished rebel women
For all the glorious past.
Oh ! yes, we sing the story :
Come, Northern dames, prepare
For deeds of dauntless glory
And acts of mercy rare.
Moved by our sense of justice,
We’ll give them what is due
Your incendiary General
And his worse than savage crew.
They wreaked their vengeance on us :
Oh, God! they did not spare
Our aged, unarmed fathers,
Mute with their sad despair.
But on those sacred martyrs,
Unmindful of our prayers,
Your heroes of Manassas
Inflicted blows and jeers.
It was a sight for Christians
To see them at their work:
The fiend from Massachusetts,
And rogues of grand New York.
As lost to shame and pity,
Like demons set at large,
They burnt a helpless city,
Surrendered to their charge.
Our homes and holy altars
Their awful radiance shed,
Over our beggared children
And consecrated dead.
While with true Yankee spirit,
Where there were none to save,
Those high, illustrious victors
Rilled the very grave.
But ’tis enough! this record
Of blasting, deep disgrace—
May Heaven prevent re-union,
And grant our men no place
Among the shameless councils
Of those we scorn and spurn—
Your Senators and Judges,
Polluted and foresworn.
No, take instead our negroes,
Philanthropists and knaves
They are your more than equals—
Our former happy slaves ;
While we, in all our ruin,
Triumphant to the end,
Hold still a priceless jewel
You cannot steal or rend.
It shines amid our darkness,
A halo round the head
Of every Southern soldier.
The living and the dead.
It is our stainless honor,
For ages handed down :
The heirloom of our children,
Our confidence and crown.
Spartanburg, S. C., Oct. 15, 1876.
CURRENT TOPICS.
—A girl in Charleston has dark-blue
hair.
—A girl at St. Peter, Minn., has, in
male attire, been serving as a brakesman
on a railroad.
—A monster balloon to contain accom
modation for fifty persons, is to be con
structed for the Universal Exhibition of
1878.
—A Mexican woman, living near Los
Angelos, Carlifornia, has been married
twenty years and lias twenty children,
herage being under thirty-five.
—Market gardeners in both France
and England employ toads to keep down
the insects. A dozen of the extra quali
ty toads are worth £1 sterling in the
London market
* —The tallow tree is a veritable fact’
It lives in China, and yields an oily sub
stance resembling tallow and which an
swers well as a substitute for it. The
tree is only of medium size at maturity.
—On a street in Syracuse, N. Y., may
be seen a tree, which seems to he a syca
more at the trunk, hut at fifteen feet
above the ground it branches out into
two great limbs, one of sycamore, the
other of elm.
—Two boys and two girls, neither
over 16 years of age, and the youngest
only 12, eloped from Council Bluffs.
They took §7OO from a savings bank on
a forged order, and are supposed to have
gone to California.
—A man was playing dice in a saloon
in Knoxville, Cal., when the funeral pro
cession of his wife came by. He went
to the door, waved his hat, hurrahed, and
returned to his game. That night he
was almost killed by a mob.
—A woman in Tracy county, Tenn.,
while lighting the kitchen fire the other
morning, heard a buzzing sound in the
oven, and looking there saw a huge rat
tlesnake coiled within. It was killed,
and found to have ten rattles.
—A bee farmer in California shipped
his this year’s crop of honey to market a
few days ago. It took ten cars to haul
the honey, each car containing twenty
thousand pounds. There was linked
sweetness long drawn out to be sure.
—The latest, simplest, and most effect
ual mouse trap yet thought of is an
earthen wash bowl nearly Half filled with
water, covered over with meal and plac
ed on the pantry shelf. A Pulaski,
.New York, woman recently caught half
a dozen of the mischief-makers in one
night.
—A young girl, now living in the Rue
Voltaire, in Bordeaux, France, who was
born without arms, uses her mouth in
the most extraordinary manner. She
can write with the greatest facility, can
thread the finest needle, embroider, knit,
do crochet work, mark linen, &c., with
marvellous regularity, and can even with
her mouth tie a sailor’s knot.
—The Jews of England contemplate
modifying the prayer book. According
to the Talmud, the ancient liturgy, which
is of peculiar beauty and sublimity, was
composed at the time of the Babylonian
captivity. During the middle ages it
was enlarged by compositions and narra
tives of distress and wonderful deliver
ances, and the diminution of these addi
tions and restoration of the services to
to their ancient form is what is now de
sired.
—A letter from the French party ex
ploring the desert of Sahara describes
the village of Ghadames, near its north
ern border, as situated on a stony plateau,
without water, and without animals. On
one side is the plateau of Hainada,
black and flat, on the other a hundred
leagues of sandy mountains. During
the day the temperature is that of a fur
uaee, and daring the night a polar cold
prevails. The winters are warm, but
dry, and the summers heavy and humid.
The streets are covered in their entire
length with roofs, as a protection against
the sun’s rays, except an opening here
and there to admit light. The houses
!. are two stories in heights
ALONE WITH A MADMAN.
“ I have often heard of persons whose
hair was whitened from excessive fear,
but as I never saw myself any one so
effected I am disposed to be credulous on
the subject.”
The above remark was made to Dr.
Maynard as we sat on the piazza of his
pretty villa, discussing the different
effects of terror on dissimilar tempera
ments. Without replying to me, the doc
tor turned to his wife and said :
“ Helen, will you plese relate to my
old friend the incident within your expe
rience. It is the most convincing argu
ment I can advance.”
I looked at Mrs. Maynard in surprise.
I had observed that her hair, which was
luxuriant and dressed very becomingly,
was purely colorless, but as she was a
young woman, and also a very pretty one,
I surmised that it was powdered to
heighten the brilliancy of her fine dark
eyes.
The doctor and I had been friends and
fellow-students, but after leaving college
we had drifted apart. Ito commence
practice in an eastern city, he to pursue
his profession in a growing town in the
West. I was now on a visit to him for
the first time since his marriage.
Mrs. Maynard, no doubt, reading my
supposition in my look of incredulity
smiled as she shook down her snowy tress
es over her shoulders, and seating herself
by her husband’s side, related the follow
ing episode :
It is now nearly two years ago since
my husband was called on one evening
to visit a patient several miles away.
Our domestics had all gone to a “ wake”
in the vicinity, the dead man being a rel
ative of one of our serving women. Thus
I was left alone. But I felt no fear, for
we never had heard of burglars or any
sort of desperadoes in our quiet village,
then consisting of a few scattering
houses. The windows leading out on the
piazzr were open as now, but I secured
the blinds before my husband’s depar
ture, and I locked the outside doors, all
except the front one, which I left for the
doctor to lock after going out, so that if
I should fall asleep before his return, he
could enter without arousing me. I
heard the doctor’s rapid footsteps on the
gravel, quickened by the urgent tones of
the messenger, who awaited him, and
after the sharp rattle of carriage wheels
had become but an echo, I seated myself
by the parlor astral and soon became ab
sorbed in his book I had been reading
before being disturbed by the summons.
But after a time my interest succumbed
to dOwnsiness, and I thought of retiring,
when the clock in the doctor’s study ad
joining the parlor struck twelve, so I de
termined to wait a few moments more,
feeling that lie would be home now very
soon. I closed my book, donned a robe
tie chavibre, let down my hair, and then
returned to my seat to patiently wait and
listen. Not the faintest sound disturbed
the stillness of the night. Not a breath
of air stirred the leaf. The silence was so
profound that it became oppressive. I
longed for the sharp click of the gate
latch and the well-known step on the
gravel walk. I did not dare to break the
hush myself by moving or singing, I was
so oppressed by the deep stillness. The
human mind is a strange torturer of it
self. I began to cojure up vivid fancies
about ghostly visitants, in the midst of
which occurred the stories I had heard
from superstitious people about the
troubled spirits of those who had died
suddenly, like the man whom my servants
had gone to “ wake,” who had been killed
by an accident at the saw mill. In the
midst of these terrifying reflections I was
startled by a stealthy footfall on the
piazza. I listened between fear and
hope. It might be the doctor. But no,
he would not tread like that; the step
was too soft and cautious for anything
less wily than a cat. As I listened again,
my eyes were fixed on the window-blind.
I saw the slats move slowly and softly,
and then the rays of a full moon disclosed
a thin, cadaverous face, and bright glit
tering eyes peering at me. Oh, horror !
who was it? What was it? I felt the
cold perspiration start at every pore. I
seemed frozen in my chair. I could not
move, I could not cry out, my tongue
seemed glued to the roof of my mouth,
while the deathly white face pressed clo
ser, and the great sunken eyes wandered
in their gaze about the room. In a few
moments the blind closed as noiselessly
as it had been opened, and the cautious
footstep came toward the door. “ Merci
ful heaven !” I cried, in a horror-stricken
whisper, as I heard the key turn in the
lock, “ the doctor, in his haste, must have
forgotten to withdraw the key.”
“ God forgive me !” ejaculated Dr.
Maynard, interrupting his wife, and look
ing far more excited than she. “ I can
never forgive myself for such a thought
less act. Please proceed, my dear.”
I heard the front door open, the step
in the hall, and helpless as a statue I
still sat riveted to my chair. The par
lor door was open, and in it stood a tall,
thin man, whom I had never beheld be
fore. He was dressed in a long, loose
robe, a sort of gaberdine, and a black
velvet skull cap partially concealed a
broad forehead, underneath which gleam
ed black eyes, bright as living coals,
and placed so near together that their
gaze was preternatural in its directness ;
heavy grizzled eyelids hung over them
like the tangled mane of a lion ; the nose
was sharp and prominent, and the chin
was overgrown with white hair, which
j hung down in locks weired as the ancient
! mariner’s.
He politely doffed his cap, bowed, re
placed it, and then said, in a slightly
foreign accent:
“ Madame, it is not necessary for me
! to stand on any further ceremony, as
| your husband, Dr. Maynard, (hereupon
; he again bowed profoundly) has already
; acquainted you with' the nature of my
; business here to-night. I perceive,” he
added, glancing at my negligent robe,
I ‘‘that you were expecting me.”
“ N-o,” I found voice to stammer, “ the
• doctor has said nothing to me about a
visitor at this hour of the night.”
“ Ah, he wished to spare you, no doubt,
a disagreebleapprehension,” he returned,
I advancing and taking a seat on the sofa
opposite me, where for a few moments he
j sat and eyed me keenly from head to foot
with a strange glittering light in his eyes
that mysteriously impressed me. “ You
have a remarkably fine physique, mad
atne.” he observed quietly; “ one that
might deceive the eye of the most skilled
and practical physician. Do you suffer
much paiu ?”
“Unable to speak, I shook my head.
A terrible suspicion was creeping over
j, me. T was alone—miles, perhaps, away
VOL. Ill—NO. 4.
lrom aid or rescue—with a madman.
“ Ah,” he continued reflectively, “your
husband may have mistaken a tumor lor
a cancer. Allow me to feel your pulse,
he said rising and bending over me.”
“ 1 thought it best to humor him, re
membering it was unwise for a helpless
woman to oppose the, as yet, harmless
freak of a lunatic. He took out his
watch, shook his head gravely, laid my
hand down gently, then went towards the
study, where, on the table, was an open
ease of surgical instruments.
“ Do not be alarmed, madame,” he
said, turning to me as 1 was about to rise
and flee, and in another instant he was
by my side with the case in his posses
sion.
Involuntarily I raised my hand and
cried :
me! Oh, spare me, I be
seech !”
“ Madame,” he saitkstearnly, clasping
my wrist with his long sinewy fingers
with a grip of steel, “ you behave like a
child. I have no time to parley, lor I
have received a letter from the Emperor
of the French stating that lie is suitering
from an iliac abscess, and is desirous of
my attendance. I must start for Europe
immediately after performing the opera
tion on your breast,” and before I could
make the slightest resistance be had me
in iiis arms, and was carrying me into
the study, where there was a long table
with green baize. On this he laid me,
and holding me down with one hand with
the strength of a maniac, be brought
forth from some hidden recess in his
grown several leather straps, with which
he secured me to the table with the skill
of an expert. It was but the work of a
moment to unloose my robe and bare
my bosom. Then, after carefully exam
ining my left breast, he said :
“Madame,” your husband has made a
mistake. I find no necessity lor my in
tended operation.”
At this I gave a long-drawn sigh ol
relief, aud prepared to rise.
“ But,” he continued, “ 1 have discover
ed that your heart is as large as that of
an ox? I will remove it so that you may
see for yourself, reduce it to its natural
size by a curious process of my own, un
known to the medical science, and of
which I am the sole discoverer, and then
replace it again.”
He now began to examine the edge
of the cruel knife, on which I closed my
eyes, while every nerve was in percepti
ble tremor.
“ The mechanism of the heart is like
a watch,” he resumed; “if it goes too
fast the great blood vessel that supplies
the force must be stopped like the lever
of a watch, and the works must be clean
ed and repaired and regulated. It may
interest you to know that I was present
at the post-mortem examination held
over the remains of the beautiful Louise
of Prussia. Had I been consulted before
death I would have saved her by taking
out her heart and removing the polypi
between which it was wedged like as il
in a vice ; but I was called too late. The
king and I had a little difference—he
was a German, lam French. I trust
that is sufficient explanation.”
He now bent over me, his long white
beard brushing my faee. I raised my
eyes beseecbingly, trying to think of
some way to save myself:
“ Oh, sir, give me an anajstlietic, that
I may not feel the pain,” I pleaded.
“ Indeed, indeed, madame, I would
comply with your wish were you not the
wife of a physician —of a skillful surgeou.
I wish you to note with what ease i per
form this difficult operation so that you
may tell your husband of the great savant
whose services he secured, fortunately in
season.”
As he said this be made a final test ol
his knife on his thumb. How moments
were fleeing all too fast, and yet eternity
seemed compressed to every one. I nev
er fainted in my life, and I never felt less
like swooning than now, as I summoned
all my presence of mind to delay the
fearful moment, fervently praying iu the
meantime lor my husband’s return.
“ * Doctor,” said I, with assumed com
posure, “I have the utmost confidence in
your skill. I would not trust my life to
another; but doctor, you have forgotten to
bring a napkin to staunch the blood. If
you will have the goodness to ascend to
my sleeping chamber at the right of the
hall, you will find every thing you need
for the purpose in the bureau.
“Ah, madame,” he said, shaking his
head sagaciously, “ I never draw blood
during a surgical operation ; that is
another one of my secrets, unknown to
the faculty.”
Then placing his hand on my bosom
he added with horrible espieglerie:
“I’ll scarcely mar that whiter skin
than snow, and smooth as monumental
alabaster.”
“O, God!” I cried, as I felt the cold
steel touch my breast; but with the
same breath came deliverance.
Quick as thought a heavy woolen pi
ano cover was throw over the head and
person of the madman, and bound tight
ly about him. As quickly was I releas
ed, and the throngs that had bound me
soon held the maniac.
My husband had me in bis arms.
He had noiselessly approached, and tak
ing the horror of my situation at a glance,
had by the only means at hand, secured
the madman, who was the very patient he
had been summoned to attend,but who
had escaped the vigilance of his keeper
soon after the departure of the messenger,
who had now returned with the doctor in
pursuit of him. As the poor wretch was
being hurried away he turned to me aud
said ; “ Madame, this is a plot to rob me
of my reputation. Your husband is en
vious of my great skill as a surgeon.
Adieu!” I afterward learned that the
man had once been an eminent surgeon
in Europe, but much learning had made
him mad. When he bound me to that
table my hair was as black as a raven ;
when I left, it was as you see it now,
white as full-blown cotton.
The Black Hills.
A Black Hills correspondent writes:
“The richest mine thus far discovered is
at Dead-wood, where two owners make
SBOO per day at an expense of about
per day. There are three settlements,
Custer and Crook Cities and Dead wood,
each having sprung up like Jonah’s
gourd. The life there is the knife and
revolver, the hurdygurdies, otherwise the
dance halls, and the trading stores being
the laws, amusements and tbe occupa
tions of the inhabitants. Prices are not
1 extraordinary high for anew settlement;
flour, $lO for one hundred pounds, and
other things in proportion, and wages
$5.00 per day The currency is gold
dust, and every trader has his scales a>
au indispensable fixture/
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ka< ni:i)\r.ss or a i'komim:.
An eminent British statesman is said to
have traced his own sense of the sacred
ness of a promise, to a curious lesson ha
got front his father when a boy. When
home for the holidays, and walking with
his father in the garden, his father point
ed to a wall which he intended to have
pulled down.
< >h, said the boy, “ I should so like
to see a wall pulled down.”
NV ell, my hoy, you shall,” said his
father.
1 he thing, however, escaped his memo-,
ry, and during the boy’s absence a num
ber ol' improvements were being made,
among others the pulling down of this
wall and the building of anew one in its
place.
W hen the boy came home and saw it,
he said, (Mi lather, you promised to lei
me see that wall pulled down."
Instantly the lather remembered his
promise, and was keenly pained to think,
that he had seemed careless of bis plight
ed word. 6
“My boy,” he said, “ you arc right. I
did promise, and I ought not to have for
gotten. It is too late now to do just what
I said I would, but you wanted to see a
wall pulled down, and so you shall.”
And he actually ordered tlie masons up
and made them pull down and re-bnild
the new wall, that as nearly as possible
bis pi oatise might be made good.
“ It cost me twenty pounds,” he said to
a friend who was bantering him about it,
“ but,” he added solemnly, “ If it had
cost me a hundred, I should have thought
it a cheap way of impressing upon my
boy’s mind, as long as he lives, the im
portance a man of honor should attacii
to his plighted word.
“JKSI'S. i.ovi:k OF JIY
The brothers, John and Charley Wes
ley, with Richard I‘ilmore, were one
evening holding a twilight meeting on
the common, when they were attacked
by a mob, and fled from its fury for their
lives. The first place of refuge* that they
found, after having been for some time
separated, was a hedge row near at hand,
behind which they hid a few minutes,
protecting themselves from serious injury
by tlie missils that fell like bail about
them, by 'clasping their hands above
their heads, sis they lay with their faces
in the dust. As night drew on the dark
ness enabled them to leave their tempo
rary retreat for a safer one at some dis
tance. They found their way at last to
aspring house, where in comparative se
curity, they waited for their pursuers to
weary of seeking them. “ Here they
struck a light with a flint stone,” dusted
their soiled and tattered garments, and
after quenching their thirst, bathed their
hands and faces in the water that bub
bled from the spring, and flowed awav
in a sparkling streamlet. Then it was ,
that Charley Westly was inspired to<
write, “Jesus, lover of my soul,” with a
bit of lead which he had hammered into
a pencil.
These circumstances beautifully illnu
trate the hymn, giving to almost every
line a realty that makes it peculiarly
significant to every Christian heart.
They had fled before their enemies, and
found shelter from danger. He sfing:
“Jesus, lover of mv soot,
Let me to Thy bosom fly.”"
# WFLI> SOT I'KAXOK.
A New Hampshire boy, now resident
of Wisconsin, was a fine scholar, a grad
uate of Dartmouth College, and a law
student. Just previous to his admission
to the bar lie took a severe cold, which
rendered him very deaf, and no medical
skill was able to restore his hearing.
This affliction compelled him to giveun
his chosen profession, and he went West
very much broken down in spirits. For
ten years be lias been farming, cultiva
ting about hundred acres of prairie, and,
as he expressed it, making a good living
and salting down something every year.
And he declared that if, knowing wbat
he now knows, lie was to begin his active
life over again, he would do just as he
was compelled to do ten years ago; that
is lie would throw aside his profession
and settle down on a farm. Said he : '
“ There isn’t much glory on a farm, but
you get a good sure living. You are
your master; you can’t starve nor be
turned out of business ; and as far as the
work is concerned, in these days of horse
power a man needn’t kill himself farming
any more than at any other business."
It’s brains that win on a farm as well as
everywhere else, and the smart man is
going to ride while the stupid one goes
afoot, in the cornfield as well as in the
bar or pulpit. I should like to have my.
hearing again, but I wouldn’t leave my
farm if I had it.”
What wait on the Rill?
Some of the hotels have bills of faro
with the fly-leaf covered with cards of
various business houses. An Oregon
man recently took a seat behind one of
them, when a waiter appeared with
“ What will you have sir?”
To the utter confusion of the waiter he
leisurely remarked :
“ You may fetch me anew set of teeth'
in gutta percha ; an improved sewing ma
chine, with patent lock stich; a box of
Braiulreth’s pills, and a pair of number
seven Freneh calf-skin boots.”
In a moment the waiter replied: “We
uo not furnish these articles.”
“ Then wbat in she devil have you got
it on the bill of fare for?” retorted the
customer.
F.iln:ini S. Sloltos.
Edward S,.Stokes. who killed James
Fisk, jr, was discharged from Sing
Sing prison- on the 28tli instan. He is
nearly utterly broken down physically :
he suffers severely from asthma and,”
though only 38 years of age, he is quite
gray. Though his long fight against the
gallows cost $300,000,. he will be a com
paratively rich man when he leaves his
cell, as bis oil refining works r which have
been cared for by his mother daring his‘
imprisonment, have done a goad bum ness
and. are quite valuable. Misery has ac
cumulated upon the wretclied convict’s
head since bis crime; his wife has freed
herself from him by divorce, aiid all the
fair-weather friends of hk# gilded* days
have forsaken- him.
Dk. Ga., give** hi*,
whole attention to the treatment of
:chronic disease-, ami may a.wafs W
' be found in bis-office.
Du. Dunil-Or’s practice is not colifiii’
ed to this county, but lie has
tVuui all part., of the do’mtry