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C. W. LONG & CO..
DRUGGISTS,
ATHENS, ______ GEORGIA,
NOW have on hand a. large stnek of every
(hii*g in oar Hue, which we offer
VERV LOW FOB CASH I
ANALINES DYES,
BLUE STONE, INDIGO,
COPPERAS, ALUM,
MORPHINE* OPIUM,
SALTS, SODA,
BLUE MASS, BORAX,
PAINTS, OILS,
TURPENTINE,
VARNISHES,
TRUSSKS of all sizes anti kinds.
Tooth, Hair, N:ul and Faint BRUSHES.
W e ace now patting rep the
Best Colognes & Extracts
w* the market, and sell them cheaper than
a-y one here. * sep2l-ly
TTh-is spnwe- pwrchaserl
%y John T. M. lliticc,
who-intended’ So- adver
tise- therein his splendid
Fall Stock, just opened
80-drey, but owing to the
cmmeiMW rush of custo
mers, attracted by the
jjrestt bargains he i.s of
fer! ng, hi advcntisemeivt
will not appear until
next week.. &•©., Keep
f<*wr eye <<u this space.
TEN CENTS
FOR COTTON.
IWHJ. pniy TF.N CENTS per pound 1 for
GOOD 1 t'(>TT( )N tre all my customers,
wlei they wish Pm- pay it to- me on accouot,
during this month.
S. H. STOKELY.
Cwrwfiirfy fire., Sept.. I3j, 1877.
iiiiiMii
Over the New and! Beautiful Stock, of
FALL GOODS
Jwht Opened at the Cheap Cash. Store of
WM, GOTTHEIMFR.
TMF; citizens of (Iglethorpe county *wPl : find
ret iiw Jaablidunent the cheapest and best
selected) stock of Dry Goods, I huts-,. Boots,
SHttros-,. Cigars, Tobacco, Groceries, Hardware',
Crockery, Glassware, Fancy Goods, etc., in
this, section'.. My e-spewae* are very light,
which enables me to sell foe
Close I * rolit s I
Avheretofore, wxy gpodfe are-strictly first
class.. THvv wtije bought niiusasi 11 y lovz, and
will he sßfd’at like figures, but l’cnurerebcirmy
TlvßHhare IX V ARIABLY < AII
Thai liking my Mends for their liberal pat
ronage in t.he past, and hoping they will find
iit to-theiradvantage- to witinw to trace with
•ie, nndi by fair, heive-t aul'liberal ifealing 1
trust to* meri t a: share of the- patronage of eve
ry pci som who* visit* Lcxi agfocr.
sepCl-tjaaiT WM. titVTTIFETMLR.
FALL & WiNTER GOODS
NOW ARRIVING AT
Tklillstone Store
1 WOULD most respectfully inform my ma
ny friends and e-tistonrois tluit l breve jjt
returned from' market, where I bought a large
andlselect stock of
DRY GOODS. CLOTHING,
NOTIONS. MATS, BOOTS, SHOES,
CRvi€K k'JKY, TIN ANDIIAR t>WARE,
GROCERIES, TOBACCO, CIGARS,
BAGGING, Tt IS, RX>PU>.
Anri, i* foet, any article ever kept in a first
class eouwtry store. These goods are alt the
best, and were bought at prices greatly redu
ced m*r last year. 1 will roll theta cheap
for cash as the same class of articles can be
bad ia the comity—but the cash must eome.
A Gmml Opening is now going on. Call
early and make vour foil selections.
J. PHILLIPS,
Mill-done, Goeeepoml dist. r Otilerh-orpe<-0., Ga.
ELEGANT CARDS, no two alike, with
2J) norree, 19 cents, post-panl. Hasted A
Cos., Nassay, N. Y. sep2l-4w
KBVOLVEE & CARTRIDGES FOR
A fine nickel plated, 7-shot pwket revolver,
a Srst-elass article. Sent C O D or o-n receipt
of price. G. W. W illis, P O Box 2,< IS, N. .
VECETINE.
Thousands will bear testimony (rend do it
voluntarily) iliat Vegetine is the best medical i
compound yet placed before the public for
renovating and purifying the blood.
Z*Z mttioii;
ClfiUoa PUce ,Kev TkL
TRIFLING
With a Cold is A Ivrars Dangerous. USE
Well’s Carbolic Tablets,
a sure remedy for Coughs, and all diseases of
the Throat, Langs, Chest and Mncous Mem
brane. Put Up Only in Bine Boxes.
Soxo by All Druggists.
C. N.CRITTF.NTON, 7 6th Are., New York.
QPIUM
HABIT CURED.
A ferluin and Snro fnre.
Ijirge Redaction in Prices. A trial bottle free.
Mrs'. J. A. Drollingor, LaPortc. Indiana.
Box 1038, (Fcmicrly Mrs I>r H B CollinsA
ni y IT 4 /A TANARUS) [\*CJ The only combination
A UliL' oof the true Jamaica Gin-
T 4 If 1 IP 1 ger with choice Aromatics
J 1 W'il and French Brandy, is a
PTYfTP delieious, harmless and stren-
Yfllt VllJli gthening substitute for all
kinds of stimulants. It promptly relieves dys
pepsia. oppression after eatiug, and every spe
cie* of indigestion, corrects all disturbances of
the stomach and bowels, and cures cramps,
chills, fevers and malaria. Ask for Sanford's
Ginger.
RUPTURE.
Those wishing relief and cure for rupture
should consult Dr J A Sherman, 25S Broad’y,
N Y, ami send for liis new book, with photo
graphic likenesses of bad cases before A after
cure. Beware of cheats who pretend to furnish
Pr Sherman’s treatment. One of these fellows
a german clerk, now calling himself Dr \\ G
Crempien, is indicted on complaint of Dr S,
and awaits trial for forgery and embezzlement.
TEN CENTS COLUMN
| rpilE BEST FIVE CENT CIGAR, with a
JL a genuine Havana filler, at VVnv. Gotthei
nrer’s, Lexington. Try one and beeonvinced
S~~ EKB OATS sSTt CALIFORNIA HOG
CLOVER SEED at Witcher &. Jarrell's.
OEEI> BARLEY on consignment and for
IO sale by Witcher & Jarrell.
COUNTY NEWS.
A VERY GOOD REASON.—The reason
why only one sample bottle of Mer cell's Hep
mfine for the Liver will be sold to the same
person, for lore cents, by our Druggists, lIAIKE
& Latimer, is because of the enormous ex
: pense of importing the Hepatine into this
country -but as there are fifty doses in the
! large size bottles, it seems two cents per dose
is cheap enough after all for a medicine that
cures dyspepsia and liver complaint. All
who have not had resample bottle are entitled
to one for ten cents, at II AIRE & Latimer’s
store. Three doses relieves any case of dys
pepsia, constipation, indigestion, or liver com
. plaint, in the world. Regular size bottles,
fifty doses, SI.OO. aogv -ly
HOW IT IS DONE.—The first object of
lift; with the American people is to “get
rich.” ; the second, how to regain.good health.
. Tire first can be obtained by energy, honesty
and saving; the second (good health) by using
; Green'tt August Flower. Should von be a de
sjionclent sufferer from any of the effects of
dyspepsia, liver complaint, indigestion, etc.,
such as sick headache, palpitation of the
heart, sour stomach, habitual costiveness, diz
ziness of the head, nervous prostration, low
1 spirits, etc., you- need not suffer anotiver day.
Two doses of Augmt Flower will relieve you
at once. Sample bottles 10 cents. Regular
size 7-> cents. Positively sold by all first-class
druggists in the U. S.
NOW AND THEN.—It is only now and
then that such men as lion. Alex. 11. Ste
phens, Ex-Gov. Smith and Ex-Gov. Brown of
Ga., endorse a medicine for the throat and
lungs, and when they do it is pretty good evi
dence that the remedy must be good
for the cure of coughs, colds and lung
affections. They recommend the Globe Flow
er Cough Syrup, and their testimonials are to
he seen round the ten cent sample bottles of
the Globe Flower Cough Syrup,, for sale by
Hairs & Latimer. A sample bottle relieves
the worst cough and will cure sore-throat.
Regular size bottles, fifty doses, sl. aug"-ly
t .vrEvr/.v sketch ns.
The Convention Sketches are now ready.
The volume-is handsomely bound in cloth—
price sl. Besides a sketch of each member
of the Convention, the book contains a por
trait of President Jenkins, and the lull vote
of each Senatorial district. It forms an. ex
cellent memorial of the Convention. A lim
ited number of copies has been printed, and
orders will be filled as they come in.
THU fnvr/:.vr/.v P-ROCKEBKJVUS.
The-Constitution Publishing: Company has
issued a complete report of the proceedings of
the Convention, giving speeches off the mem
bers on every subject that lias been consider
ed. It is the same report revised and correc
ted heretofore published in each issue of the
Daily Constitution. It is the only stenograph
ic report of the proceedings published, and
therefore the only report that gives in hill the
debates of the Convention. It has been pre
pared at great expense to the company, and
will make a book of more than 500 pages, It
will be neatly printed, and will contain noth
ing bat the proceedings of the Convention.
The price is $2 per copy.
Only a limited number of copies have 1 been
published, and many orders-have already
been received. All who desire a copy will
please send the amount by registered letter or
[lost office order; atul the book will be forwar
ded postpaid. Address Constitution Publish
ing Company,. Atlanta, Ga..
FASHION NOTES.
Fall styles are quite-showy.
Worden goods find ready sale.
Yellow is fast losing its prestige-..
Colored laces are too much worn.
The reign of striped hosiery is o ver.
Box plaited basques will he much worn
this fall.
Wraps are now trimmed in most gor
geous style.
Fashionable pique suits for children
are no longer braided
FeaShers will he used-as-complete trim
mings for most bonnets.
I-ace buttons are revived for organdy
and Swiss mnsli-n garments.
Felt bonnets are not seen among the
earliest importations for autumn.
Little boys and girls under six or sev
en wear the same style of dresses.
Colored jet beads bid fair to be the
rage as the fashionable trimming.
All new polonaises and hotel basques
simulate men’s frock and dress coats.
All skirts are cut very short in front,
even when they are very long in the
back.
The heavy waterproof wools will be
used by ladies who wish costumes at o-nce
durable, simple and refined.
The latest iancy stockings are orna
mented only with the monogram of the
wearer embroidered o-n the instep.
A profusion of ribbon bows with tight
straps and long loops and ends are seen
on some of the importations of dresses
for fall wear.
Cloth bonnets, like the costumes, will
be trimmed with a bandeau of silk of
different color, or feathers; later in the
season, with a narrow rim of fur.
Perhaps the prettiest fashion is the
universal wearing of white for full dress ;
white grenadines, white eashmeres, and
white foulards are used at the seaside
where thinner materials would be injur
ed by the dampness ; all sorts of feather
tiiumings and exuberant ruches are used
as trimmings.
Anew style of infants’ cloak is made
with a waist plaited skirts, a coachman’s
or short military cape covering the shoul
ders and turning back in front with a
silk lining. The colors chosen for these
novelties are pale blue, pink, gray, anl
even tiHeul, but white is not exploded,
and is the handsomest of all.
Long sacques and circulars are the
wraps which will be worn. But the
sacques are not like those of last winter.
They are longer, have a different cut,
producing a closer effect, are differently
trimmed, and have oue, rarely two, large
pockets, half a yard or longer,
placed back of the hip, and covered with
ornaments of the passementeries, jet, rib
bon, or plush braid trimmings.
Double and treble capes, made round
and reaching to the shoulder, are worn
with the long, untrimmed sleeve of the
| directliire dress. These capes fasten in
front, and are high at the throat. This
style is known as Robespierre, and is not
generally adopted on account of the ex
cessive severity in cut and tone of color,
and the unornamented finish of the dress,
dead leaf shades and efface colors being
excessively trying to most complexions.
COUNTY GOSSIP.
By Grape-Vine Telegraph to the Echo.
The agents for that greatest piece of
mechanism ever patented, tiro Somhem Cal
endar Clock, has established their headquar
ters in Lexington, an<l otir readers can now
have the opportunity of ptuvliasirgr, on easy
terms, re timepiece that will not only serve in
that capacity, bat res an: almanac, rend at the
same time its fine finish and handsome shape
renders this clock an ornament to any palace.
They have been scattered broadcast through
out our State, and in every instance has-given,
more than satisfaction. This is no Yankec
humbug, but a Southern invention of rare
merit. Mr.Hartman, in charge of the-agency
in this county, is one- of the most affable- and'
agreeable gentlemen we ever met, and we be
speak for him and his assistants a hearty wel
come and cordial treatment from the citizens
of Oglethorpe. Look oat for the advertise
ment next week.
The match game between the Varieties
and Pop-and-Go, at Crawford last Saturday,
was discontinued at the third inning, owing
to-a disagreement about a round. A large
number of spectators were disapjwiated, but
none, we believe, censured our boys for dis
continuing the game. The Varieties would
have doubtless borne away the palm had the
game been played out —at least this is the
verdict of a majority of the spectators. But
the Pop-and-Go is a good club, second to few.
We return thanks to the Messrs. Crow
ley for a jug of as fine hojne-made svrup ae we
ever tasted. Their mill is now in operation,
and we advise all of owr planters who desire
their cane made up in the best manner to
notify these enterprising gentlemen. They
sent res a stalk of genuine sugar-cairo, very
large and juicy -
An Athens merchant told us last Sat
urday that he lias had fully five hundred ap
plications from young men from, the country
for positions as clerks within the past thirty
days. Our informant says he foels that he lias
done the aspirants a favor by refusing them,
the coveted place.
R. M. Gaulding, aged 11 years and a
son of Mr. W. Gaulding, picked 139 pounds
of cotton from 1 o’clock till sundown. Sum
Gaulding, aged 9, picked 109 pounds dating
the same time. The cotton was picked for Mr.
Dave Gaulding.
..Bear in mind, that all communications
advocating the- claims of any candidate for
oflice must be paid for as an advertisement.
We rum the Eeiio to make a living—not for
an accommodation. Announcements $5.
The Winterville base ball club cham
pioned it over the Paolii boys recently; and
then Tom Hodgson took tlic Madisonites and
was “ laying it on” to the in
turn, when they “ counted Tom out.”
The regular meeting of Crawford Bap
tist Church is postponed until the sth Sabbath
in this month, owing to tlie fact that the-pas
or will be absent,, attending the Serepta As
sociation, which convenes to-day.
X report is prevalent that; Mr: Stephens
recommends the pardoning of the Crawford
rioters by Gov. Colquitt. Our citizens are
justly indignant at this "attempt to. pervert
justice.
Two laegro convicts were larging
around Crawford last Sunday. They fright
ened several negro women by trying to invade
their houses, but left upon help being sum
moned.. .
The- Echo-hereafter, u the loagjsagpiof
Tom Witcher, will fee made to “ just june
as we will have additional force, and will un
limber onr energies for the winter campaign.
John- Moore,eo ndiictaire on tMsbranch,
lias one of the finest boy babies in tlie State;
but hasn’t that youngster a hard-looking case
for a dad 2
Mr. Mat Briscoe, living in the neigh
borhood of Baicdstowm, has recently built a
very fine bridge across Little river,, at his-own
expense.
Mr. J. B. Poyner will leave for the
Mercer University in a short time, where he
will attend the law department.
Read the new advertisements in this
issue. Next week we will review the advan
tages of each bouse at length..
~ Mr Henry Cheney, of Itttirdstown, has
recently purchased a house and. lot and will
go to housekeeping.
.We were absent from duty the first part
of this week, tvhieh accounts for the shortcom
ings of our paper.
.The creeks and branches about Bairds
towu were completely dried up belore the
recent rain.
Mr. Brantley Johnson’s horse runaway
with his buggy this week, and broke up the
vehicle.
Ur. James C. Young has completed a
handsome dwelling at the place his other was
burned.
Tom Witcher thinks the Crawford fire
last week was caused by a “heated journal.”
Mr. Jap Hopkins is still suffering from
the wound he received in the Crawford riot.
Jake Quarterman, a negro living above
Crawford, can butt the head out of a barrel.
A steam gin has just been started at
Bairdstown by Messrs. Duchain & Young.
A negro pawned a shot gun with Tom
Gilliam this week for a marriage license.
Witcher & Jarreil .are building their
new store-house on the European plan.
Capt. Hartefield paid Mr. Norton $1,400
for the house be bought in Crawford.
Tbe Hon. Dick Smith has just returned
from a trip to North Georgia.
We return thanks to Capt. S. H. Cox
for a leg of very fine mutton.
The colored men did noble work at the
Crawford fire Friday night.
The parents of Mr. Jesse Jarrell will
move to Crawford next year.
The train killed an old mule belonging
to Alec W infrey last week.
Our merchants have all bought very
heavy stocks of goods.
Mr. Frazier has been reinstated as en
gineer on this branch.
New peach brandy can now be hal at
$1.50 per gallon.
Where are the candidates ? Shall we
order a draft ?
A jeweler speaks of locating in Craw
ford this fall.
Mr. Ed Maxwell has a chicken with
four wings.
Patronize those firms that advertise in
your county paper.
Dry goods are 25 per cent, cheaper than
last year.
A tan-yard is talked of near Crawford.
Hogs are dying around Lexington.
’Possum and ’raters in prospectus.
A cohl rain Wednesday.
is scarce.
k full*.
CRAWFORD DOTS.
BY NOVICE.
An unoccupied dwelling house, on the
comer of Mr. J. M. Poyner’* lot, was
burned by some inceidiary hist Friday
night. It required work to save the of
ficein which Mr. J. J. Norton rooms.
This is-the third attempt to burn out
Crawford. Lynch law ought to dispose
of the incendiary when caught.
The grab-bag at the I. 0. G. T_ haU,
last Saturday night, was a pleasant affair
and quite a success. Tom Witcher says
he grabbed abut for each member of his
family. There were two additions to-the
lodge, viz.t Miss Jessie Thomas and
George Little.
Mr. J. G. Ha rts fietj> has- purchas
ed the house and lot in Crawford owned
by Mr. J. J. Norton, in which Mr. Vick
ers now lives. We learn that Mr. H.
will more next January. We will wel
cote him to Crawford at any time.
The question, now is, shall Cheney’s
school bell, or Ed Johnson’s engine whis
tle regulate time in Crawford T
Bill Tucker is still in search of a
housekeeper. None but marriageable
young ladies need apply.
The merchants of Crawford are getting
fn their Fall goods, and all of them sell
ing cheap—/or cask.
Fount (tin ( anq* (,i iiuxl—Wimx-n
Cmmvy mil I'lopV--Crops--.Wince!.
lan y .
Editor Ec/vo>: —On Friday the 4th
September the writer, in company with
a male coquette, left Woodstock, en rout
for Fountain- Camp-meeting, in Warren
county. Leaving Woodstock six miles,
we saw corn not yet knee high, while
most cotton,unfortunately, looked pretty
well-
CIU.\VFORimLLE
was onr first point of ingress. A glance
plainly told us the old ville was not ou
the wane. Liberty Hall still stands
with its venerable oaken shade.-,the place
of Georgia’s statesman.
We met Mr. Sullivan, of the Democrat,
busied in the press room. Mr.. S. says
“ Crawfordville needs rain to mix with
whisky”—experience a good teacher.
Moving snail speed, our faces turned
east, a couple of hours carried us eight
miles into the rural*beats, and
SHARO-N",
a neat little- village- on the 1 Washington
Branch, was before us. But one feature
of dejection seemed to brood over the
burg, and it is the blues. Three or
four stores are bartering here,, and the
Echo is all that can make them lively.
After arranging the. toilet a parts la
mode, our companion guessed it time “ to
dig,” and away we went, all oboard for
Raytown. Hence three or four miles
shows crops of a much better prospect,.
Crossing three dozen branches, and bor
rowing “apples for two,”'
RAYTOWN,
upon her seven hills, shone forth along
the horizon. It was cut out for a big
town, but got spoiled in making.
We spent the night at Raytown, guests
of that clever, Christian gentleman. Col.
Bryde Ivey. We found Raytown a live
ly little place, with tillree stores in suc
cessful operation—a hospitable and intel
ligent settlement.
Nine miles on Saturday morning—
good crops and cheroots being admired
and enjoyed, we- struck camp. The last
cadence of “Nearer My God to, Tliee”
was going out from among the congrega
tion, aud our companion said he felt sad.
Some twenty-five hundred people were
congregated here, and some eighten
preachers wereexhortii g by sermon and
imploring by prayer. Through the pro
tege of Mr. Durding, Messrs. Kendrick
and Brown were our hosts. Elegant gen
tleman, charming young ladies and
sumptions feasts prepared under the di
rection of the older ladies, made the oc
casion one stay of ecstatic pleasure.
The third day brought on a great deal
of feeling,and preachers, laymen, people
and all united in a jubilant shout of
“ glory be to-God I”
The camp is in some eight hundred!
acres of oak woods. The altar is sur
rounded bv, perhaps, fifty tents. The
spring, whence the name, issues from a
perpendicular precipice, some 200 feet
in altitude. The scenery roundabout is
wild but enchanting. Mr. Durding hath
rightly styled it, “ Lo-vers’ Leap.”
With a sigh and a smile we turned
homeward ou the sixth day’s stay, avow
once more to meet onr friends upon a
pleasant stay at Fountain Camp Ground.
Bras.
Postal
The following very valuable facts will
prove of interest to the public:
Letters cannot be carried out of the
mail except in postage stamped envel
opes. There is no objection to a person
who is not acting as a common carrier,
carrying a sealed letter or not; but to
continue tbe practice, or receive money
for so doing, would subject the party to
a penalty of $l5O.
Newspapers, magazines and periodi
cals may be carried out of the mail for
sale or distribution to subscribers : but
if they are put into the post office for
delivery the postage must be paid
thereon.
Private matter merchandise and other
third-class matter cannot be forwarded
from tbe office to which it is addressed,
unless the Postmaster is furnished with
postage for such purpose. Neither can a
Postmaster regrrd a request endorsed on
such matter, except he is furnished with
postage as above. A request “to return,”
written on such matter, would subject
the package to letter postage. Letters
can be forwarded without additional
charge, by addressing the Postmaster in
writing. To leave notice with a hotel
clerk, boarding house keeper or office
clerk, cannot be accepted as a notice to a
Postmaster, and letters once delivered as
per address, cannot be forwarded without
prepaying postage thereon anew.
An (h’fentnl QneMCoK
The Russo-Tarkish war revives arvold
story. A Turkish and a Russian officer
once fell into a dispute as to the superi
ority in discipline of ibeir respective sol
diers.
“ I aa prove to yon on the spot/’said
the Russian, “■ bow perfectly oor oven are
trained.” And he called his. orderly.
“ Ivan !”
( “Sir/"
u Go to Mehemet'sy btey me a pound of
tobacco, ami come back at once."
The soldier saluted, turned on his heel
and west oot.
“ Now,” said the Russian officer, taking
out, his watch, “my orderly is walking
straight to the next eonuer, where he
must turn—now be is taring—now be is
opposite the mosque—now he is- crossing
the mavdan—now he i-s at Mebeaiet’s—
now he is buying the tobacco—now he is
eoniing back—mow he is on the block
, bekiw us—now he is at the door—now”
—and the Russian called out :.
“ Ivan L”
“ Sir.”
“ W here’s th e tobecco T ’
“lie re, sir.”'
The Turkish officer showing no sign of
surprise at the precision of this Russo-*
1 tobacc®* movement, promptly broke out| ;
u Ho ! ho! m.y soldier can do that every
day in the week,” and he called c
“ Muhctar L”
“ Sir.”
“ Go, to All Eifendi’s and! see that you
bring me a pound of tobacco. My pipe
is empty.”
“ Instantly, sir.”
Following the tactics of the Russian
officer, the Turk pulled out his watch
and went on
“■'Now Muhctar is in the street;: now
he is passing the bazar; now it
is noon and he is staying for prayers;,
now lie is drinking at the stone fountain ;.
now Ali EiFendi hails him and asks
about my health - r bow Muhctar is pay
ing for the tobacco;. now he is on our
street ;, now he is at the door; now”
“ Muhctar L” shouted the officer..
“Sir.”
“ Where is my tobacca ?”
“/ haven't found iny ufmes yjeil”
DURHAM’S LIVER PILLS
have no superior as a family pill.
Use of l'lies.
Although fl' : es are, in, summer,, the
pest of our lives, and we wonder why
they were ever made at all, is should be
remembered that they have an infancy
as maggots, and the then loathsome life
they lead as seavaugers clenses and puri
fies the August air, and lowers the death
rates of our cities, and towns. Thus,
while stables and piggeries, and fiLth are
tollerated by city and town authorities,
the young of the house-fly and the flesh
and. blow-fly, with their thousand allies
are doing something toward purifying
the pestilential and averting the summer
brood of cholera, dysentery and typhoid
fever, which descend like harpies upon
the devated towns and cities. It may be
regarded as an axom. that wherever flies
most abound, there filth death-dealing
and baneful, is most abundant,and filth
diseases such as we have named do con
gregate. A fly which is born in August
generally lives a m.ou.th. or six weeks,
and dies at the coming of frost, either of
cold or the attacks of fungoid plants.
A few, probably, winter over, and sur
vive until midsummer, and thus main
tain the existence of this useful species,
to which civilized man owes more than
can readily be. estimated, and which he
can dispense with only when the health
of cities and towns is looked after with
far greater vigilance and intelligence
than is perhaps likely to be the case for
several centuries to eome.
Better than Hot Springs—Dß. DDR
HAM’S BLOOD PURIFIER.
A Unrgconsi Glitter.
A London correspondent says of the
Prince of Wale’s Indian presents: I
doubt if Solomon ever saw anything so
gorgeous as this collection at Bethnal
Green. Fancy a whole large )glass case
full of gold and silver gems. All ablaze
with diamonds! Imagine a bedstead
whose coverlet, pilLows and curtains are
made of India shawls of the finest texture
ever ttinted out from the looms of Cash
mere! Conjure up a dressing-gown com
posed of the plumage off the backs of
of gorgeous-hued humming birds! Bee
for yourself a palanquin of tortoise shell,
inlaid with gold, with downy cushions
covered with strange stuffs whose woof
seems as if it were diamonds, and its
web emeralds. One glass case is full of
jewelled swords, all of enormous value
and great beauty. The handsomest came
from Delhi, and with its jeweled hilt
and scabbard and waist belt is valued at
$50,000.
DR. DURHAM’S PILLS awl BLOOD
PURIFIER are not secret, nor patent nos
trums, hut their formulas are open to the in
spection ©f any one.
A Fish Story.
“ Far be it from us to doubt the word
of a brother editor,” says the La Crosse
Siy>; “we believe them all to be truth
ful men; but when the Durand Times
says that the water is so low at the
mouth of the Chippewa River that cat
fish have to employ mud-turtles to tow
them over the bar, we feel as though the
editor must be away, and some local
minister filling his place.”
“HHidinad aooifi s.kvhhiht *r
‘pooiH sip jo sapuriduij |[B joj
Brigham's ttuther.
There is a report that Brigham Young’s
mother, now ninety-eight years old, is
living at Martinsville, Indiana. Her
faculties are yet bright. She is in very
humble circumstances, and dwells with
some bitterness upon the fact that her
son, who so greatly prospered in this
world’s gear, should have forgotten her,
leaving her to an old age of penury and
CURRENT TUPDCS.
—The revenue of the United State
$284,000,000.
—The house in which Martha Wash
ington used st live is now a cooper shop.
Old menories prvouptly barrelled up.
—Gold has reached th* lowest point
since the war during tbe past week,
briaging a fraction more tliaa three cents
premiunx
—A poet-aorte examination on the
body of a New York man who had died
of consumption showed that the heart
was o tlie right side and the liver outlie
left.
—Twogirls fought a duel in Kentucky,
about a beau, a few days sice. All the
boys are getting agitated, and say it
would be so nice to have the girl tight
about them.
—The ferment begun at the time of
the Electoral Tribunal has not ceased.
Memorials for the abolition of the
| Presidency will be presented to Congress
next mouth.
—The Turkish soldiers are taller than
the Russians, and will average at least
five feet and ten inches. They wear full
'beards, but have their heads shaved, or
the hair cut very short.
—The United States produced last
;vear a cotton crop-worth abouts2so,ooo,-
000; and a com crop worth about $583,-
,000,000. Of a total agricultural product
jof $-t,000;@0(f,@00, the corn crop forms the
largest item.. **
—A wandering old portrait painter
named Cooper, always seen with a rusty
isatchel under Kisarm, has been found
dead near Martinville, Ky., and the bun
dle when; opened was found to contain
$65,000 in Government bonds.
—The number of postage stamps of all
;kinds and denominations, stamped en
velopes and newspaper wrappers issued
by the Post Office Department during
■ the fiscal year ending June 30th was
1,060,253,900, the value of which was
$26,525,837.47.
—Brigham Young left seventeen! wid
ows, and each one’s share of the proper
ty issLos,ooo. Here’s a chance for seven
teen imprecunious getlemen. You pay
your money and take your choice. Or
’you may take two on three-or seventeen,
Just as you like.
—The Searcy, Ark., Railroad system
consists of four miles of wooden rails
laid on a natural road bed. The equip
ment is one working car ; the working
force is one man ; tlie motive is one mule,
and the fare from the outside world to
Searcy is sl. There was no strike on
the Searcy Railroad.
—A Philadelphiaspiritulistieperform
er, who- personated 1 materialized spirits
with the aid of masks and wigs, has
been exposed. Me has been doing a very
profitable business. Many ofhis dupes
believed that they recognized dead
friends in the faces that he showed in a
dim light. A newspaper reporter easily
detected the fraud.
—A child charmed by a black snake
in Jefferson county, Teun.,, fed tbe snake
;daiLy for over a week. The father discov
ered the snake-coiled up in the child’s,lap
and killed it, whereupon the little one
went into, spasms of grief and refused to
eat food of any kind. She cries almo.-t
continually, except while asleep, and
physicians state that she will live but a
short time.
—ln tlie island of Cioa, near Bombay,
there is a singular vegetable, “ the sor
rowful tree,” so called because it only
flourishes at night. At sunset, no flow
ers to- be seen, and yet half an hour af
terward, it is full of them. They yield a
sweetsmell, but the sun no sooner begins
to shine than some of them fall and oth
ers close up. This- coutlnucs throughout
the whole year.
—Black Hill pioneers complain that
scarcity of women is one of the great j
wants of that section of the country, j
This may be so, but the girls that are
there now, make up in vivacity what
they lack in numbers. Two of them re
cently procured fast hoises and galloped
| a race through the streets of Dead wood,
, and then urged their steeds into a saloon.
These ladies do not seem to be troubled
with the bashful reserve which character
izes Eastern damsels.
—The earthquake which frightened the
good people of Trenton, Burlington and
other places in New Jersey on Monday
did not eonfine its rumblings and grum
blings and rockitigs to that State, but
“crossed tbe Delaware” and shook up
the lower part of Bucks county. It last
ed only a few seconds, but it was suffi
cient to alarm the farmers and cause
them to wonder what was the matter
with old mother earth.
—A Calaveras (Cal.) paper says: Miss
Getchell, while sitting out doors a few
days ago, fell asleep ; when she woke up
she found her self unable to move, and
looking around noticed a large snake ly
ing on one of her arms, making a low, his
sing noise. For some little time she was
unable to move, and felt a peculiar thrill
ing sensation ;she finally, however, mov
ed one of her arms, and the power being
broken she got up. The snake still lay
there, but she says she could make no
exertion to kill it, and turned and left it.
The snake made no effort to hurt her.
—A Government officer of Sitka, Alas
ka, writes the Secretary of the Treasury
a very uninviting picture of Sitka, and
of Alaska generally, from which it ap
pears we have not made a very remuner
ative bargain in the purchase of that in
teresting territory. The chief occupation
of the people is distilling strong drink
from berries, molasses, potatoes and other
distillable materials, and then drinking
the produce in inordinate quantities.
The population of Sitka is thus enumer
ated : Twelve to fifteen white men of va
rious nationalities, all claiming to be
American citizens; five full-blooded Rus
sians, including a priest; 270 half-breeds,
i and about 1,500 Indians.
— -y
GEORGIA ECHOES.
—Caterpillars are getting ripe iti
Southern Georgia.
—The sign af a firm in Talbott©** m:
“ Com*- in - weave glad tosee y®: fttnr
are yotw folks •**
—CJL W”aruea Aifcea. is stomping
Walker comity for Mil ldg<tv tile and the
new ChnafcUaAiee.
—A negro- women- ef Musedprt- ewt Mf
went sw, “possum” hunting last week
and :mght fifteen.
Fourteen rattlesnakes-i
u-tes were killed on .•* Greene- eoo-ety
plantation- recently.
—Only sixty-ffve- applicants foe tbe-'
Marshal-Clip of Georgia. Step- ®p, gw-'
tLeman; don’t be backward.
—The Ordinary'of Muaosgee edwity
has issued a license fo>c the- marriage O-i
Bob Toodles to- Maui ao* Noodlest
—According to a eircwTar Css tied INK
Hon. John 11. James, Blinker of Atlanta,,-
the debt of tlie statc Georgia fo
500.
—Dr. S. C. Brown of Ftrsytß county
lias dried this yea-r 1,400 poiwidia a#
peaches and. apples from an eccbard. off
two acres..
—Up to this time Joe Brow* has- peidf
into the Treasury ©f the State two* miildom
dollars, rental for tlie- Western and At.-'
ban tic railroad.
—A camp meeting was recently IWM
in Jefferson county, and, though not n (
sermon was preached; fifteen penswufc'
joined t! e c-’iurcli.
—The- little son. of J l . F. G©odißMmy off
; Tiftoir, BCirieni cesmty, was seriously
burned last week by the- accidental ex
plosion of a kerosene lamp.
—Tlie Central Georgia Weekly has nek 1
patience with the move now beingy i
augu-rafced in. Atlanta to induce Souther®*
white women to tench negro- schools*
—There is a Georgia negro, -uwr.edi
Jacob, residing in- like neigh hothead. <*-f
W'ynu-’s Hill, Muscogee county, who* -
clai ms that lie is one hundbied aavd fifty
years old. He it> a full-bloodied Afeica'_-
—Mr. Manning Cains, ei €wi®n*tl :
- county, as we- learn from.- A* HeraM*.
- came to. a horrible death last week by
being smashed under a log fie- was-hawili--
■ ing to- a saw mill. It was- eighteen, inches
in- circumference au.d about fifteen; feet
long.
—President IT-ayes w; n:f. come- o®*
Atlanta, so- Atlanta. proposes to. go
h i.m at Chattanooga, ®a the 20th, in ai
grand excursion. Now let tlie- baswfl
play. Candidates for Unatedi Estates-
Marslial will fill one car, aud other affiiee*'
seekers an tether.
—Tlie Bttinbridge Ifonrocrat says *
“ The meanest man in. the State live iiw
an. adjoining county tu Brooks*. He hadf
in.- his employ a poor Little oeplte® boy.
The boy ’s brother caiwe to see- him, *n<l
the farmer made the orphan iia has- en*-
ploy pay Cor the meals his bsother ate-.’*
—Major Moore, of Atlaiatai, hms been
interviewed by a reporter of the Coast#**
tution;. The Ma.j,or states to- the reporter
that the soil around Atlaata is- rieb. witiii
gold dust; that lie lias a iu.il I abowlt
ready for grinding, on Collins street, and
that in a short while lie expects to. W
tu rni out gold lit great quaatities.
—The Birriert County News says : -‘
There seems to be a Bosnia for burning;,
school houses in this county. Several 1
situatedou- the road leading fiotifc Nash
ville to Valdosta, have beenb®rad with>-
in the last three years. Tlie last homed,
was that situated o® the road between*,
Mr. James Roberts’ and Cat Creek toil)*..
—ln a recent session of tbe Cocstito
tiorial Convention in x\tlanta there were*
one hundred and thirty-seven speeches
made- in one morning’s sitti.Bg, ami they
adjourned in good time- for dinner,.
And yet some- people will say they an#-
wasting time. Why one gentfeatan, aui~-
hitious to do. his w!w>icduty, was o-n the
floor thirteen times,while two. more were
up conversing with the House- twelvet
times and so ou down to silence.
—Says the Atlanta Independent: “ i(
a good Vermont or New Hampshire- far
mer should work ettr Georgia farms as
he works the rocky, sterile New Englautl
lauds, lie would produce sueh aw
were never seen in this country, if our
thirty-five thousand farmers wowld work
Georgia lands as the good Northern,
farmers work their lands, the agrieultu-t
rists of Georgia would be the rub y
lenders of the State.”
—I say that though I have served the
people for forty years, this convention
was the boldest, broadest and most un
purchasable body of men that I ever
saw ! Some of them may have heen dull
and could not spell very well (t am a
bad speller myself), but they were men
who stood for Georgia and the rights of'
the people, and they have built you a
monument which w ill survive for all
time. —Robert Toornb*.
-Hon. 31. J. Crawford, formerly *
Representative from Bartow county, wau
out riding with a Miss BeloMtt>„ on last
Friday. As they were riding, the young
lady raised her parasol, which frightened
the horses, eausing them to run array.
They were both thrown out, and Mr.
Crawford’s neck was broken, causing his.
death almost instantly. Miss Bel mail’s
shoulder was broken, and she was other
wise badly injured. She is not expected
to live.
—The Quitman Reporter says: “We
hear that the little daughter of Mr. Ben
net Massey, who lives in the lower edge
of Thomas county (in the Dry Lake
neighborhood), was killed last week un
der the following circumstances: She
was assisting her father to pack his cot
ton, and was spreading the bagging on
the bed of the screw box, when the bolt,
which held the fallow block gave way
and the block came npon the child,
killing her instantly, SMf? was nine Ye%c
old.” \