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%‘ki ©gldhorjr* otbfl. SUBSCRIPTION. ONE YEAR 82.00 BIX MONTHS 1.00 THREE MONTHS 50 CLUB RATES. FIVE COPIES or less than 10, each... 1.75 TEN COPIES or more, each 1.50 Terms—Cash in advance. No paper sent until money received. All papers stopped at expiration of time, unless renewed. 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/ (i he (Orjtetorp (Mo. ADVERTISEnrtfcIvTS. First insertion (per inch’space) 00 Each subsequent insertion.... y 75 A liberal discount allowed those advertising for a longer period than three months. V*rd of lowest contract rates can be bud on appli cation to the Proprietor. bocal Notices 15e. jjcr line first insertion and 10c. j>er line thereafter. . . . Tributes of Respect, Obituaries, etc., 50c. per inch—half price. Announcements, in advance. - 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