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^IIAT OUR NEIGHBORS ARE DOING
Aa4 Their County I’npern In a Nnt-Kbell.
Elbert County.
...Election returns: Colquitt, 1374 ; Nor¬
wood, 348 ; Speer, 782; Renfroe, 293. For
Representatives: Mathews, Brewer, 862; Andrew, 518-
357. This is the largest vote ever
polled in Elbert.
...I he new Council of Elberlon has fued
the Hqoor IWnee al « I n. 0 00. W.
pose chromo. they throw in a title to the town as a sort
ol
...A negro and a white man fought in
berton, and the former was fined $10, while
the darkey went free. Another Southern
outrage !
...Elbert County Ringing Convention meets
flt Antioch church on Friday before the 3d
Sunday in this month.
...Clark Jones, the negro prisoner, has gone
to adorn Mr. Smith’s chain-gang for six years.
Jle pretends to be crazy.
...Jim Harper, of the Gazette, has found out
that you can’t mix a millinery notice with
blockade whisky.
...A grand entertainment by the Klberton
Female School on the last Friday night in
this month.
...Klberton is cussing mad because some
chap hours. rings her town bell at unauthorized
...Jim Harper has a pocket-knife 220 years
old. He uses it to whittle out his jokes with.
...Elherton’s cotton business has doubled
Itself this year like small boy with the colic.
...The Geo. Alexander lund, containing 220
ftrres, brought $1,002 cash.
...Hon. E. I*. Edwards is critically ill at
Gainesville.
...New houses still going up in Elberton.
...Elbert has a hairless calf.
M IIUvn County.
...Vote in Wilkes—Colquitt, 1404; Nor¬
wood, 481 ; Speer, 1866; Renfroe, 30: Hill,
1694 ; Reese, 1680; McLundon, 179. Tlie
election was quiet, and the largest vote polled
in ten years.
...Candidates in Wilker—For Tax-Iteeeiver:
J. Boyce Fieklcn, G. C. ShK ; for Tax-Collec¬
tor : Edwin M. Anthony, Marshal F. Pope.
Green ...A negro boy, formerly in the employ of
Bros., has gone into the mercantile bus¬
iness in New York.
...The new Methodist church in Washing¬
ton will be built as soon as the money is col¬
lected.
...The Mis cs Taylor, of Elberton, were to
give a concert in Washington, but failed.
...The train on the Washington branch
caught fire last week, but no damage done.
...There was a had run off on the Washing
Aou branch last week, but nobody hurt.
...A two-horse farm in Wilkes county this
year made only 50 bushels of corn.
...Gen. Toombs is going to put up a $200,
000 cotton factory in Washington.
...A bored well has been sunk near the post
office door in Washington
...Robinson’s circus is billed for Washing
ion next month.
Washington wants a fire engine.
THlinTerro Futility.
...A Taliaferro farmer, who has mad* a suc
oe*» of rice culture, is putting up a mill to
clean it.
/ordville ...They are having spelling bees in Craw
; also a wheel of fortune.
,..The Democrat ditor has been shown
thus early a head of fall oats.
...A CraWfordville apple tree lias its second
crop of fruit this year.
...A religious revival at the Methodist
eburch drew a blank. *
...‘‘ Dr.’'’ West, col., has been talking poli¬
tics in the county.
...Malarial fever raging in the eastern part
of the county.
... day. A darkey picked 412 pounds of cotton in
one
McWhorter received 704 votes; Heard 412.
...Sore eyes, of the worst type, are raging.
...Mr. Tom Moore, of Sharon, is dead.
...Sharon is to be incorporated.
Another bar-room in town.
.laekiMis Comity.
...Election returns: Colquitt 1214; Nor¬
wood, 713. Bush carried the day for Senator,
and Bennett and SiIman for Representatives.
...Tom Brooks wants to bet $20 that he has
a pack of hounds that can beat anything in
the State, Are you asleep, John Davenport?
...The Governor ordered the suspension of
the sentence on Arthur until some documents
could he seat to Atlanta,
...Work on the railroad begins in earnest
in two weeks. Will look out for the engine
when we see it.
...Married, Miss Eliza Wilson and W. T.
Wilson; also Miss M. I. Hill and Joseph E.
Wiley.
...Bell and Speer have been locking horns
all over Jackson of late.
...Mr. Ezekiel Boggs is dead.
Naitlson County.
...Election returns—whole number of votes
polled, Speer's, 1,215; Mattox, Norwood’s majority, 72;
1054 ; 1142 ; Representa¬
tives : Daniel, 752; Scott, 431 ; Sorrell, 3.
...Gus Berry’, a negro, over in Jackson
county, made a dastardly assault upon a white
man named Wm. Smith.
...The lands of R. E. Hitchcock, deceased,
are advertised at administrator's sale in next
mouth.
...Madison county’ is sighing for a steam
syrup mill, to grind up her big sorghum crop,
...The negroes gave a barbecue near Bnn
ielsville, and had a Radical speech for desert.
...The Board of Education will meet on the
3d Saturday in this month.
...Mr. J. T. Comer is building a large dwel¬
ling on his farm.
...The Yeoman comes out in a half sheet.
Greene County.
...Majorities in Greene—Colquitt, 1741 ;
Renfroe, 1047; McWhorter, 1123; Wilson, ’
1202 .
...A little son of Rev. W. A. Overton, was
seriously hurt by being thrown from a horse.
...Several farmers around Union Point
Bpeak of emigrating or moving next winter.
...A neero had his legs and arms amputated
by a train near Social Circle last week.
lished ....A large number of Sheriff sales are pub¬
this mouth in the Herald.
...Union Point cotton receipts has doubled
this year.
...The Greene pauper farm is for sale,
...Broken bone fever at the Point.
Ocofiep County.
...Miss Susan Odilion, aged 35, died on the
7th inst., of diphtherai. This disease is veiy
prevalent.
...Fourth quarterly meeting of Watkinsville
circuit will be held at Ray’s, Thursday, 2lst.
...The negro who was bitten by a mad-doe
has experienced .,ad effects. &
no
...Lands r 0 i of r John T , \Vilhams, dee d, , , being
divided are
into amall farms.
TW „ Ue „ child died 5 U, M
COUNTY GOSSIP.
«Y GRAPE-VINK TELEGRAPH TO ECHO
......Plant onion setts.
......Hides are in great demand.
i ......’Possumscaught in large numbers.
i ......Only one vote challenged in Lexington.
, ......Judge Pottle fails to bring frost.
never us
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| ......Mr.Tom Amis has , bought Uia Shev. , _ Bush ,
a farm near him.
! • .....On an average, land in this county will
j bring $10 per acre.
......Trash manure won’t do for small grain,
as it breeds insects.
.....A large number went from this county
to the Oconee Fair.
readily ......Farming lands around Lexington rent
at $9 an acre.
• .....Parties who burn coal in Lexington say
it is cheaper than wood.
......You can successfully grow the genuine
sugar cane in this county.
......Our Tax-Collector wants the people to
settle up by Court week.
$1.25 ......They are ginning cotton at Antioch at
per bale, we hear.
.......A telegraph office at Crawford is al
mostan absolute necessity.
......Our Court can transact all the new bus¬
iness before it in two days.
..... One of our most pious old citizens inva¬
riably goes to sleep in church.
.....A little deaf and dumb negro from Ath¬
ens was in Lexington last week.
......The fence question is as dead as the
Norwood boom in this county.
......Berckman says figs are the only fruit
crop certain to hit this section.
the ......Partridge hunters are out, and report
crop of birds unusually large.
......Several important land trades around
Lexington are near consumation.
......There will be little or no stained cotton
gathered in our county this year.
......The cotton crop of this county will be
about one-fifth short of last.year.
......Lynch & Flanigen, of Athens, have a
set of china that cost $500 in Paris.
......To get a.stand of fall Irish potatoes,you
must plant them as deep as possible.
..There is a strong opposition from neigh¬
bor) ng.farmers to country bar-rooms.
......The Long creek bridges will be com¬
pleted in about five weeks, at farthest.
......It now costs the county over $50 a
month to feed the four prisoners in jail.
......There is now a double daily connection
to Atlanta over the Northeastern Road.
......There was a good deal of whisky afloat
on election day, but not a single drunk.
......Our young friend, Phil Cook, is the
happiest man in Georgia by ten pounds.
......To gin wet cotton the saws should be
very line and the brush set close to them.
......Mr. Roane is making a great deal of
money out of the Lumpkin detachment.
......We have tested Luccrn, and consider it
the best forage crop raised in this section.
......Alec Winfrey, col., has been prosecuted
for fraud in the sale of excursion tickets.
..... Some hard feelings in the county about
road working, from parties who were fined.
......It is thought the negro murderer in our
jail will be sent to the penitentiary for life.
......A nice parsonage for the Presiding El¬
der of this district has been built in Athens.
......The negro cut by a gin on Mr. Smith’s
place is getting well. He ruined a $500 gin.
.....Why Lexington don’t some one burn a brick-kiln
near ? They are in great detnaud.
.....Mr. John W. Kidd is receiving orders
from all over the State for his hog clover seed.
......Jurors and witnesses, bear in mind that
Oglethorpe Superior Court convenes Monday.
......Col. Dorsey says he will continue the
night train on this branch for a while longer.
......Every State officer from this district is
a farmer. The people intend to keep them in
power. ......Wiley
Bush must have been born by
sections. He claims nine counties as his birth¬
place.
......It is surprising to know how many peo¬
ple in this county are addicted to the use of
opium.
.....That notorious Clayton county colored
murderess is on Mr, Smith’s farm’, in this
county.
........-A good stone and brick mason is badly
needed in Lexington, as there is plenty of
work.
Mr. Jas. M. Smith says guano is about
*s cheap as cotton seed for manure, and is less
trouble.
......Uncle Jim has a new hor«e, he bought.
of Bob Slayton. It is the best nag we ever saw
him own.
......Mr. Henry S. Jordan, the popular
clothing merchant, of Augusta, was born in
Lexington.
......It is now predicted that the liquor bus¬
iness will be closed up iu our county on Jan¬
uary 1st.
......Mr. Joe Deadwvler says to get a negro
to work you must go to the field in vour Sun¬
day’ clothes.
......J- T. Olive, Esq., tigs every letter re¬
ceived and a copy of every line fiehes written
since a boy.
......Judge Gilhatu sijLvs he once knew a
man to have his braiqs takeq out, replaced
and ho—died.
.....This fall our county will pay off the last
dollas of indebtedness and have a surplus iu
the treasury.
......Circulars sent to this eounty state that
Robinson’s circus will exhibit at Lexington.
We doubt it.
......Several old citizens can remember when
the northern part of this county was inhabi¬
ted by Indians.
......Our census enumerators have not been
paid for their work as ygt. It is a disgrace to
the government.
......Farmers, offering in their anxiety for hands
next afford year, are larger wages than they
can to pay.
......Don’t dig your sweet potatoes until
they quit turning dark when broken. Let
them be well ripe.
......By reference to the census returns it
will be seen that Oglethorpe has a voting pop¬
ulation of 2,155.
..The Norwood vote in Lexington was
33 whites and 40 blacks. This we found by
reference to the list.
......A minister in this county preached a
regular the political sermon on the Sunday pre¬
ceding election.
......The Young beys have bought the right
of Texas for Lumpkin’s Detachment, and will
soon leave for that State.
......Merchants say farmers never manifested
a more commendable spirit than this fall
about paying accounts.
......We hear it suggested by one of our law¬
yers that the next Legislature pass a State
registration law for voters.
......Mr. Geo. Winn Brooks will npxt year
move belongs to the Deupree Mrs. Sims. place in Lexington" It
new to
A Lexington man went to call his col
° r ed nars f one night recently, and found her
asle , * p ir * lns , C0U1 Pauy bed.
. to V, "¥, (je( r - J Cunningham,and !i hn T ' ETgHcd has sold learn his he place will
merchandise ,• V in Winterville. we
It.will pay farmers to raise stock at the
. K"id» » h ;?So , «? d malra - T “' T
OUR ANNIVERSARY.
-
The Ecbo Enters Its VHth Volume. A Word
to Our Patrons.
With this issue our paper turns an
other leaf in its journalistic career and
enters its seventh voiume. On the 9th
sheet day of October, 1874, we threw our first
to the breeze, in the faee of an
hundred prophecies that its career
would be brief. The Editor knew not
a half dozen persons in the county when
became here; but he had faith in the
hospitality, wide-spread cljaracter of its people for
Not reliability and intelligence.
fora single instant did we harbor
the thought of failure. We knew that
sustain Oglethorpe needed and could We and would
ceivtd with a county organ. were aid re
open arms, and every
and encouragement given our enterprise.
And right here we must pay a merited
tribute to that noble-hearted gentleman,
Mr. J. J. C. McMahan, now of Augus
ta. has Through adversity and success lie
ever stood beside us. When we
were in need of aid or advice we hesita
ted not to command him. He made our
success his own; and the present posi
tion of the Echo is due as much to him
as the individual exertions of its Edi
tor. But there is notan individual in
our county so humble but has contribu
ted his mite to our success. We have
now cherished in our heart thousands
of kind words, spoken, not in our hear
ing, with a view to aid us. We believe
every individual in old Oglethorpe is
°, child u l,, within Pf. If her there borders is a man, that woman has aught or
against the Echo or its Editor we are
not aware of it. If we ever gave any
one offen3eit has not come to our knowl¬
edge. Have we not cause to love tlie
grand old county and its people? The
sun never shown upon a grander or
more noble race than that which inhab¬
its our borders. We Jove the county
and its people, and have cast our lot
among them for weal or for woe. We
want our bones to rest on Oglethorpe
soil, and trust our descendants, for gen¬
erations to come, may guide the helm
of the Echo.
A word of business: With this issue,
the time of about 400 subscribers ex¬
pasted pires. opposite They will he notified by a slip
their names. We hope
they may make it convenient to renew
during Court-week, as we now need the
money. In adopting the cash system
it was not through distrust in our pat¬
rons, but to run as large a paper as the
Echo requires a great deal of money.
Everything about a newspaper must be
paid for in advance. $2 to a man is but
little—but 1,600 times §2 is $3,200. We
draw off our subscription books on the
1st of November, and will erase every
name discrimination. not paid for. The In this we make no
poor and the rich
are served alike. We have as much re¬
spect for a pauper’s feelings as a million
air’s. We trust none may be offended
if they fail to receive a paper after the
time mentioned. I; is simply a matter
of business, and a rule we won’t violate
in favor of any one. We hope patrons
will pay for the year, as those short
term subscribers are more trouble than
profit. But we won’t refuse them.
In conclusion we must pass a vote of
thanks to our able corps of correspond¬
ents. Without their aid the Echo would
bs like bread devoid of salt.
For the past f#w issues our paper has
been short of reading matter. After
Court we will remedy this,
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A RIOT IN OUR COUNTY.
Three Negroes Seriously Stnbfeccl at a Uorn
Shucking on Mr. Vfnsdon Bray’s Place.
in On Monday night lust a riot occurred
this county that for a time threatened
to be a serious affair. It appears that
late in the night all hands got pretty
well inflated, when the conversation
turned upon wrestling. Mr. Bray, with
a view' to bring out a champion wrestler
named John, on his place, said he could
dirty Willis tiie Howard, hack of any man on the ground
aud said col., threw open his
arms could throw any man who thought he
him might wade in. Mr.
Bray then John stepped aside and got his
nigger and turned him loose on
Howard. At the first pass John meas¬
ured his length on the ground, being
histed about ten feet. Undismayed,
he sailed in again and was this time
thrown almost senseless. The friends
of Howard, both black and white, then
took him up and carried him around in
triumph. the This enraged the friends of
defeated gladiator, and in less than
no time an indiscriminate fight com¬
menced, the whites pairing off and tak¬
ing Fence-rails, sides with their respective favorites
stones, knives and pistols
pily were brought into requisition, but hap¬
no shots were fired, or else there
would have been a bloody battle. As it
is three negroes—Willis Howard, Rich
Long and Fred Williams-—were cut, we
learn some of the wounds being serious.
Others were bruised and beat up. None
of tiie whites, we believe, were hurt.
We report this unfortunate affair just
as it was given to us. If there are any
corrections we will be glad to make
them.
LATE LOCAL NEWS.
ens —TakeJt.-Take Weekly Banner. what? Von Why, take it the Ath¬
for *a. Hunt its Editor can get on Lex¬ year
and up next week in
ington subscribe.
—We return thanks for an invitation
to attend the nuptials of Mr. Luther H
Turner and Miss Mollie L. Brewer, of
Elbert. The bride is a daughter of our
esteemed friend, Hon. James II. Brewer
Miss Lucy is one of old Elbert’s fairest,
most amiable and gifted young ladies.
To the happy couple we send our hearty
greeting. life May their pathway through
be strewn with heaven’s choicest
blessings.
—A negro man. who lives on Mr. J.
Armlstead s place, was slain by the train
on Wednesday They evening, below Craw
say he was asleep on the
rail. The train moved on and Jeft the
body on the road, we learn, where it
was found about night.
This week, to muke room for read¬
. matter, had leave
ing we to out two col¬
umns of live advertisements. The miss¬
ing insertion is to be made up with in¬
terest. We will have plenty of room
next week.
gia. Kf** I*** “
Eugene „ Brydie, the popular
, barber ol Athens, would colored
his be glad to have
customers cab on him at the Kim
bal[ House barber shop, Atlanta, during
the fiiir. °
-Mr. Jabez P. Smith, of this county,
and Miss Binns,. of Wilkes, were
ned a few days since.
-A three days’meeting commences at
Mount Pleasant on Friday, 29th.
—Cotton to-dav * in LexWfrm " * ‘ 45 m «.
10 1-8 cejjtg.
A Second Growth.
A few years ago some disease killed
out nine-tenths of the Chestnut trees in
this county. We now hear of a vigorous
crop of young trees sprouting up in the
| woods.
A ”, s«e»R i btei. -
j On the night of tlie election
some
thief stole an §8 pair of blankets, under
which Mr. Flatau was at the time sleep
j ing- They were pulled through a bro
ken window-pane.
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Paying for l,nml.
Several persons in this county have
thus early made payments on land they
bought, and we hear of several who
have a clean score. Merchants report
collections magnificent.
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Trade i>nii.
Our merchants say business has been
very dull the past week. Farmers are
holding their cotton for better prices and
don’t come to town much. Next week,
however, will be lively enough.
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A Rebel Ontrase.
The late Dr. James S. Sims left his
colored servant, Fud Kidd, a small tract
of land near Lexington. This item
should be tacked to the Convict Cate
chism for circulation in Indiana.
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a t uning Scrape,
Last Saturday night Sant Maxwell
and a son of Ned Galaspy, both colored,
got into a difficulty in Lexington, when
Sant drew a knife and stabbed his ad
versary behind the shoulder. Nothing
serious,
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Lhw Suit**.
IV e often hear persons say they would
submit to any imposition before becom¬
ing a party threatens to a law suit. One of this
class now to pay a lawyer $50
to defend his case before submitting to a
$2 road fine
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Captured Them.
Col. A. F. Pope carried a wagon load
of darkeys to Crawford to vote for Col¬
quitt, tickets but before he bad time to get them
a Norwood nigger stepped in and
voted the last one for the champion of
the forlorn hope.
Our Rijf Farmer.
lion. James M. Smith has a 50-acre
field of cotton from which be has gath¬
ered 50 bales. His big bottoms will av¬
erage 30 or 40 bushels of corn per acre.
This shows what our old lands can do
under a scientific farmer.
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Earning- Wages.
There is an old darkey in this county
who always walks to Atlanta or Augus¬
ta, when he has occasion to visit those
places. He says a nigger is a fool to
ride on a railroad when he can make $2
a day walking against it—more than al
anything else.
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Onr Gold 3Itucs.
Messrs. Colburn and John, of tlu
North Morgan mine, returned from their trip
this week. They report that the
machinery they tested was not adapted
to our ore, hut they have other tests
under way. Work at this mine is to be
temporarily suspended.
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Old Fields.
It is said that an old field, when turn¬
ed out a second time, won’t P0m§ up in
pines. This we think a mistake. They
may not recover so soon as after j first
clearing, this but scrubby pines are indigu
ous to section, and they will reap¬
pear in time. But since the introduc¬
tion of guano it is seldom you seen field
turned out.
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A Kinn|! Vote.
Tlie smallest vote known in this coun¬
ty in 50 years was polled hist week. The
weather was too pretty for ma.iydarm
ers to turn out, while other voters had
Norwood become disgusted with the contest. Mr.
did not get exceeding 100
white votes in the county. About one
fourth of the voters were blacks.
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As We Though!,
That verdant couple, that created such
a sensation in Lexing about two weeks
ago, match. proves They sure hailed enough to be a runa¬
way from Madison
county, and bad tried to get a license in
several other counties before applying
here. The groom was aged 17 years and
the bride had fought mosquitoes for 21
summers.
Excursion Rates,.
To accommodate persons going to the
Atlanta Fair, the Georgia Railroad has
greatly is reduced the passenger fares. This
one of best managed and most lib¬
eral corporations in tlie Sonth. Long
may its present officials reign. Stock is
now worth $105, and continues to ad¬
vance.
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Wool Colton.
Mr. Salmons, near Lexington, will
raise about 200 pounds (lint) of hjs woo!
cotton. He last year shipped two small
lots and it brought more than the com¬
mon bles staple. This cotton closely resem¬
wool, but the staple is very short.
The leaves look like those of yam potat¬
oes, and it is easily picked. We oo not
think it amounts to much.
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Cattail Rickers.
Our farmers this year were lucky in
getting hundred. their cotton gathered at 40 cents
per Below Augusta they have
been fourth. paying An 7“ cents—or about one
old farmers says be once
knew farmers to pay one-lialf for pick¬
ing, We think 35 cents a fair price, as
10-ryear old children in this county ofteD
get over ?0Q pounds a day.
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The Convict Ueawe.
That sickening sentimentality about
tlie State convicts was only with a view
to entrap the colored vote. The State
lias a solemn contract with the lessees to
run for 20 years, and she has no more
right to annul it than to repudiate her
valid bonds. Our Legislature can pro¬
tect and see humanely treated these
criminals, but it is beyond its power to
repeal the lease.
Georgia Farming,
We were impressed the other day by
a remark from one of our most success¬
ful farmers. In speaking of manuring
land highly he said it didn’t pay to put
as much on your fields as you took off;
that land was cheaper than manure and
he got on with as little of the latter as
possible. of farming. This is akey to our loose way
Until our population con
! denscs, and lands advance in price, the
planter will continue to scrape over a
vast area of ground in preference to
cultivation. bringing a few acres to a high state of
For the time it pays better.
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the whole of Uxington wem to church h st
Sunday, to see tt}* fcrkjal couple,
MENKO, THE IRREPRESSIBLE.
A Representative Norwood Man. that Wc
' tl1 VI *Ntoi tum- to Eueouitter.
,,
i a ” ta i house, °’ a traveling probably tourist for an At
is the best known
man tor Ins size and calibre in Geor
gia. He is a cross between a campaign
P°et and an Atlanta whisky drummer,
an(1 the first man who takes a plaster
east of his tongue eanunhesitatingly
j‘ ineie ave it patented For perpetual motion,
lsn t than but Menko, one thing that makes
Menkos; noiSe and that is two
but the w«rld couldn’t stand
tUen noth at one time. Menko will ar
S, Commission uo w j t h anything, down from stake-and-rider- a High Joint
to a
f ( * fence or a dose of vermifuge. N, There
ls noway to put the brakes on him ox
cept to break hU neck. His tongue is a
regular stem-winder, and can bore
1 “rough a ni:ui quicker than a steam
When , lie embraces a .subject ir
ls w, ! b a vice-Hke grasp and be (
turn it loose till it is mashed as flat as a
pan-cake. Norwood was Menko’s last
mania, and he did more talking for the
cause than every liaranguer in Georgia
P ,J t together. We tackled him one night
}J}. Grawfovd just before the election,
“' era erc ‘ ll in fe ImJ “H shut up shop and
i he i had caught Tom Witcher
on the fly and had talked politics to him
until our friend said lie felt like a hole
,n the ground. He was in the act ofes
fm'tber persecution through thi¬
ofsuicide when wc oame-to his
lescue - We didn’t know Menko then,
1 we would have emulated Don Quix¬
ote mid charged a thousand ordinary
wind-mills before tackling this one. He
sailed into us, anrl for thirty minutes
we didn’t know whether our brain had
come in contact with a circular saw or
a political cyclone. He would build up
a stack of charges as large as stone
mountain on Colquitt, and before we
could twist our togue to reply he gave
them a kick and sent the whole edifice
tumbling about our ears. We tried to
escape,. hut he followed us up like an
epidemic. We begged for mercy and
promised to vote for Norwood, Boss
Tweed, Sitting Bull or the Kahn of Tar¬
tary. Our petition was lost amid tlie
clatter of his tongue. We tried to damn
1 * is mouth that we might get in a word,
hut you had as soon try to stop tlie
course of a tornado hy blowing against
it with a hand-bellows. Menko would
rear and pitch, cavort and casnort, jump
up and down, jesticuiate and abfusti
eate, and howl, rip and tear, spit and swear, roar
fume and sweat, and the Lord
only only knows what he didn’t do, hut
keep still. He charged Colquitt with
being tiie father of Zehidees’children;
swore he was the very man who struck
Billy Patterson; said lie was President
ol a John Smith manufactory; was tlie
author of Beautiful Snow and had
dramatized Pinafore; was once a light¬
ning-rod Bender agent; had been a bosom friend
to and was first cousin to John
A. Murrell; had been paid by Nero to
stick fire to Rome, and had to leave old
England Favvks for complicity in the Guy
the emancipation conspiracy; proclamation that he had written
for Lin¬
coln and then turned Ku-Klux; that he
had traded Joe Bro -vn a seat in tlie Sen¬
ate for a free railroad pass; that he had
brought Bermuda grass, the seven-year
itch and caterpillars to Georgia; that
lie had pardoned himself out of tlie pen¬
itentiary while Governor; and sung
Y^ankee Doodle to nigger the Sunday
scjipols. At this instant we saw tue
train it, hotly approaching pursued by and Menko made and a his holt fear¬ for
ful tongue. We gained the coach first
and hid in the stove. But our persuer
found another victim in Hamp Mc¬
Whorter, who lie put through a sweat
box the balance of the night. Ilamp.,
to secure a rest for his outraged ears,
stopped over at Crawfordvilie, suppos¬
ing his evil genius would go on. Hap¬
less hope! Menk. got off too and roomed
with him. He talked ILmip. into insen¬
sibility, and would then arouse him by
pouring water in liisface, He sat astrad¬
dle his body all night and shot Norwood
arguments into his ear like a double
back-acting breech-loader. The next
morning Menko was missing, but Mc¬
Whorter was found in his room in a
demented state, He is now under treat¬
ment of Dr. Westmoreland, of Atlanta,
who thinks he may in time restore his
mind ifMenko’s or Norwood’s name are
not mentioned in the afflicted man’s
presence. We reached Augusta in safe¬
ty and that night attended a Norwood
meeting. We were just passing a vote
of thanks in our heart that Menko was
100 mi'es away, when who but that
veritable and take Wandering Jew should walk
in a seat beside us! Gentle
reader, we won’t longer detain you with
a narrative of our suffering. How would
you feel for a man to run a red-hot poker
down your throat and burn a hole in
your liver? IIow would you likeburning
lead poured feel in one ear as a relish? How
would it to have a hole punched in
the crown of your head and your brains
picked wouldn’t out it with be a nice pair for of tweezers? And
lungs of a throat man to pull
your out your with a
pair of nail tongs? When you think
you can stand these tortures without
winking Menko^-but or blinking then you can en¬
counter not before.
If some one would amputate this
young demon’s tongue lie would be a
great pet with the boys.
Advertising Pays.
Jno. T. M. Ilrfire & Co. recently in¬
serted a small card in the Echo, and
they say it is paying them handsomely.
A lady says that it attracted her atten¬
tion, and upon going this to their store was
surprised goods cheaper to find than she firm could selling dress
Atlanta. other j buy them aucj
in She told tdies,
sold him three fine dresses. It pays
home merchants to advertise as well as
those at a distance. A house that is
never in print is looked upon as a dead
institution. If a man tries advertising
in the Echo one season lie is sure to
keep it up.
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Onr Pacing Segro.
A fortune was missed by some one not
carrying and that entering pacing him negro from this
county at the New
York walking match. A rapid pace is
his constant gait, and he can travel far¬
ther in a day than the fastest horse and
feel no fatigue whatever. He is a great
natural curiosity, that should be utilL
zed. No man or horse could keep up
with him for a long heat.
. .j.,,,,...,,
‘ * ’
, r . B-stei T , has now , in . tue Clerk ,, s
, «° ld *? a lo t- b °x tiscd for Bql
b t] u ee ' 1 la y 8 e ’ ect J ( ,n in tins county
It is as large , as an ordinary . trunk, and
L haS} ™ ( ; re loop-holes and batterments
} ,la " ? lls of Jerusalem It was
!n f nd p d for a repeater, but tins last
act of uifamy . aroused the whites of
tirow our
State and gave them strength to
Off the yoke of oppression.
PSBSOm PRATTLE,
Mrs. 8a ii a n Savins offered to give the pars on
age her house, committee but they an acre building lot adjoining
vrant a site on Church st.
Dr. Kixxkbrkw, We learn, has closed the
trade fora farm near Athens, and intends to
move thereabout Christmas.
Jri»GK Giliiaw has trimmed his chin whiskers
and his head now resembles a chinquapin stuck
on a broom-straw.
Miss Many Wilt.ingu.oi has subscrib’d on
her list over $r>0 for the parsonage, lion. Kino
rv Speer gave-$5.
Alas. Sisiswil’ continue to reside on her farm
near reported. Lexingtou, and not move to town, as was
Mr. M. P. Briscos has the contract to carry
the Klberton and Crawford mail, at $450 a year.
™nIL^ residences 00 of r\r Messrs S!M ' ! ' k Vl Iitui e huUdiiig and Bob between Latimer. the
A , p,,,,,,,.,,,,,. CnitisiiAN gentleman ,, , in r Lexington . , , has
housed for months a negro injured in n well.
Dk. Howard has located at Jacksonville,
Fla., and expects to enter business there.
Davk Arnold has been giving us two mails a
day this week. Dave is a brick, any way.
Mr. Gko. t. Latimkr and lady have returned
tnnn a pleasant visit to the Gate City.
«»mnT ... f .i t. r. . .
expected in Lexington next week
MisaSrsiE Platt, at last accounts, was some
what better, but seriously low yet.
Gko. C. Grogan, Ksq., a leading young lawyer
of Klberton, was in town this weeli. ’
Dr. Ki gkxk Foster, that gilt-edged man of
Augusta, spent last Friday with us.
-Mr. Hartman, of the firm of Daniel A Marsh,
paid us a p’easant visit this week.
Sever u. fom, Lexington attended the Primi
tiveBaptist . Association, Sunday.
i.Ki'ORr says that two of our young lawyers
arc soon to better their condition.
“And a little child shall lead him”—a certain
aged bachelor Tuesday evening.
We learn that Mr. T. 1'. Callaway thinks of
moving to Lexington next year.
Tim family of Air. Jacob Flatau is expected
over from Kurope this winter.
Mr. FiEi.Dixo Dillard is recovering from a
severe attack of typhoid fever.
Damp. McWhorter has been attending court
in Washington again this week.
Miss Jimmie Deadwyijjr is carrying the
hearts of LnGrange by storm.
The Chedel-Martin case was settled Saturday
by Mr. Martinipaying sj - 40.
Mr. Geo. M. Fakst is now clerking for Gluts'.
Stern & Co., of Athens.
Du. (V. M. Jarreei. now pulli the ribbons
over a beautiful team.
Mrs. James Johns left Tuesday for the co in
try, to spend a few days.
Mrs. Mary Johnson, we regret to learn, was
quite sick last week.
MR. F. ,1. Koaxk will be home next week, as
his case is to be tried.
Senator Mattox is expected in Lexington
during Opurbweek.
Dr. Joe Wise is one of the cleverest mpn in
the United States.
A new game of cards is addling the brain of
our Unci7e Vagabond Club.
Davie Batman’s condition is better
than last week.
A Lexington lawyer won nine boxes of cigars
on the election.
IaEXINGTON DURINO COURT-WEEK.
.Begin ing next Monday our oh] town
will, for a season, throw off her garh of
dreary ling desolation and come out as suii
as an old maid with her new win¬
ter bonnet.
We will see here that hoary old justice
slinger Judge Pottle, with his supernn
uated cane and awe-inspiring visage;
Col. Seab Reese, with his parti-colored
beard and twinkling smile; Pope Bar
fantastic row, with tread; his niooley Col. Thurmond, head and light,
that
old sledge-hammer veteran of the bar,
who can shape a verdict out of any kind
of ease; the silvery-tongued Wat Davis,
whose hair and brain are parted exactly
in tlie middle; GeorgeGrogan, with his
big bat and small but well-Iilled head;
Jack Shannon, with his capacious maw
and illuminated lace; Charley Seidell,
with iiisbroad, bland smtleand ponder¬
ous understandings; Seabrook, the saf¬
fron-haired Demosthenes of Washing¬
ton; Colley, the beauty of Norwood! tlu Georgia
bar; Mitchell, tlie educated Le
of Union Point; John McWhorter, tlie
great untamed genius from the wikis ol
Greenosboro; Joe Worley, the long¬
and headed, bow-legged expounder of law
unadulterated temperance; Colonel
Gabe Nash, that grand old wliagdoodle
from the shingle region of Madison. And
there will be other greatness here, too
numerous to mention.
We welcome these visiting statesmen
to our homes, and we welcome them to our
firesides, we welcome them to our
bar-rooms; but darned if we welcome
them to our pocket-books.
Our home lawyer too, will be on band
ready ing brothers and willing to relieve their visit¬
of any extra cigars they
may have in their pockets. These gen
try will till their satchels with pine
straw and old newspaper, followed by
their entire library, legal, religious and
sectional, and with a silent pressure oi
§00 slowly pounds of dignity to the square inch
iile into Court, with a withering
look upon their face wiiii-h clearly says,
“I am sir oracle—when I ope my lips let
no dog bark!” Except when Courtis
conglomerated in session the Lexington lawyers are a
mass of gilt-edged geni
ality; but when our justice-mill is g r i„.
ding they are as distant as Jupiter’s
moons.
Next week will the legal fraternity ad
die their brains over whist at night and
chronic old cases in the day. They will
(io a heavy practice at our bars, and the
end of Roebuck’s nose will redden with
delight. and They will fill their flasks by ‘
day empty them by night.
Next week will a corps of the ugliest
men on tlie American continent shoul
der fishing-poles and prance around
town, loaded with 1 be importance of
ftill-fledged bailiffs. But this is no emp
ty Next honor. They get $2 a day.
week will three lawyers, two ei
gars and a quart flask make evening ex
eursions to the Rocks. This perform
anee is never omitted.
Next week will our privileged c iti
zens take time about in aiiin-r their im,
port the an ce Judge’s hy occupying that vacant chair
on left hand. The wither
ing look of self-appointed scorn that
these patriots east upon the common
herd that squat and spit tobacco juice
at their feet fills the beholders with an
all-inspirin" awe will ■
Next week a chosen few of our
“intelligent and upright citizens” meek
ly submit for hours to tlje gimlet tongues
of heartless and unbellowsed lawyers;
while about 20 of ”tlie intelligent, up¬
right and most experienced” putt'cab
bageJeaf jury cigars and swap yarns in the
grand ^ Next week room. will Sheriff
clean shirt and Young adorn
a p*}ce around the Court
room like a man with the cramp oolic;
while Mr, Lester beams upon t he audi
erne from behind a shirt-collar and a
pile of papers. week the
Ne.\t will countryman inj
h;be a brand of liquor with all the fuss,
cuss and holler squeezed out, and lie
will perambulate our streets with the
meek and lowly air of an angel with its
wings clipped. week
Next will be a high old time in
Lexington, and the stranger may glory. sec the
town ill till its gi]t, liuse] gad
THE OCONEE ASSOCIATION*
L
1 l ull rrnccedi.ias, .Specially Kcporfccl for the!
OAflet'unrpc Kcho.
I ■ Bf.avekdaai Cnciicir, ?
j Oil I.ETI 101 tl*E (JO IN TV, ?
j October 9, 1880. )
j The annual session of the Oconeo
t" (Frhnlth’ 0 ) Baptist Association e('n->
; vened ",\V tn-dav -it the mother L ilmreh. 1
j v -tlnct t to-ild u \ tlie. i\ssoi •
4
') as t)i ganizeeil .in this house hy
j Junior George Lumpkin proaeii ing lli(Y
[ John introductory Lacy, sermon and the election of
.Moderator, and J) VC Pat
. nmn> Clerk. About six churches, with
412 members, who had left the the Sa
repta Association , . .. account , of c dificr
i on
! t-dict in doctlinal \ low _ S, composed . this .. .
! j organization.
I 1 he introductory sermon to-day was
preached by Elder Ilardy, fullowed by
j \V 1) Chandler.
| After sin hour intermission, met foi*
j organization r *"« '“<"•*» and business. »J«I Read letters
i ™i» 0‘eir
| state, inning the Associattonal year
! tliu teen had been added to tile eluirehesj
! am ‘ at the giituo time the diminitions by
1 death, exclusion, etx\, had been twenty4
j j churches. nine, lotal 515. membership in the liltcerp
Elder W ]) Chandler was re-elected
Moderator, and W W Hinton chosen
C’mb
n -
Etad Constitution . °f and r , , Eults of , Deco* . ,
ruin.
U M Alninnd, P Lester and W J Flee*
ponding man were letters. appointed to write tlte corres*
Eider Wm Adams, with letter, repre¬
sented the Yellow Ri ver Association J
W S Montgomery the Ocnutlgee. The
Warwick. Delaware, Delaware Rivet*
and Uharley were represented by min¬
utes. Marietta by Elder J N Moore, J
P McPherson and G Eidson. Spring*
held by Elder Ezra McCruni.
W ]) Chandler, U M Altnand, W P
Cox, G W Atalcom, J F Yarrter, J Poter
held Jno Stdtliam, W W Hinton, S \V
Chandler and W J Fleemnn were ap¬
pointed correspondents to Yellow River,
W D Chandler, U M Alninnd, W P
Cox, W jRaleom, A H Edwards and G
A Stewart to the Ocmulgee.
W D Chandler and U M A Inland to
the Marietta.
Opened correspondence with the Del¬
aware Association.
Hominy.
Eldeys ,T X Moovc and Wm Adams
occupied McPherson the stand in the morning; .T P
and J M Guntur in t he af¬
ternoon, tions. to large and orderly congrega¬
Monday.
Received Elder Patterson from the
Ebenezer Association.
Read and adopted Circular Letter pre¬
pared by Eider Almand.
Agreed to insert in next year’s Min¬
utes, Articles of Faith and Constitution
instead of circular letter.
Appointed First District, Union Rock Meetings Springs as follows church, t
Morgan county, Friday before the 3d
Sunday Second in Dictrict, July, 1881.
Mount Zion church,
Oconee church, Friday before 5th Sun¬
day in July, 1881,
Third District, Systra church, Madi¬
son in May, county, 1881. Friday before 5th Sunday
held Appointed Mount next meeting Walton of body to be
at Paran, county,
Friday before the 2d Sabbath in October.
1881.
Ordered 800 copies ®f the Minutes
printed. Elder Patterson
ing followed Elder preached this morn¬
The following by resolution McCrary.
by the body: was adopted
Wc feel, as an Association, to express onr
Je qi syn.pathy m fhe emifinueil alfliction of ouv
dear and liiglily esteemed brother, Klrler D. W,
Patman, our former Moderator. Oh, that the
Lord, if it be his will, would remember him ami
us in great mercy, resigning its alt to hi* \ypl
in a 1 tilings.
The Moderator was profuse In Ida
thanks to the members and friends in the
vicinity for the hospitable treatment of
the delegation.
The session was unusually harmoni¬
ous, and many affecting scenes witness¬
ed on meeting and part ing of friends of
former years.
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TIIE GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION,
S ' rc ^ s «»« *tatc bv«n,oooMajor
• Tkc Nojamrea A» Kievie.l.
J» , nll,!int r , 5.° >» 'll Georgias 1 ," s jj 1 0l political l. . ,s the annals, most
ft nffiu^s the legmn of dislinguisheit
P 11 ) 3 * 10 < ,”, u erri ' v ’, ) n I ) ,|l ose ^ J 1 } 1 ’, ,!
W1 . .‘ OA wl>»eh Col
i° r !l
00,000. 1 wo-tlmds of c the popular vote
'y as lor lmn.ii lie did fan to secure two-
<l‘i|‘ f ls of the de ogates.
y ‘* r I naisurer, -^peor defeated
^"'f roe b ! :l ^a.jonty. the rest
the Ci State ticket is^ electei. oy a full
vote, Gen. Clifford Anderson running
1>p ,l',i l h n(b 9 follo ; vi . j 1 ? negroes ape elected
inP.mbers of the next Legislature: A.
'* u^on, ofGainden ; I. Lanon, of Dough
hnson, of Lee; John McIntosh,
<>f Liberty; 1 bos. Goodneii, of Meln
t( Gagin T ,sh 5 (white), V*. Anderson, Republican, of Newton of Paulding, ; Newt
W ith, the exception of a bloody riot
1 Linen, con lined to the blacks, the
election throughout the State passed oft
very In quietly.
^ ulton county they are contesting
the election on the ground of fraud
ties having voted without paying
Norwood , only , carried . , , twelve , coun*
s anfl two of these by nmjorities of
8 and 4 - Tll!> y :U ’« a* follows: Bartow,
• 606; Berrie^n 248; Bryan 4; Camden, BO;
Chatham, Bo2; DeKalb, 8; Madison, /J;
I ickens, 4J7; ^ s ^ I ) oik, q^V. /5. 87 °i„ I r:vu no charge l c}in «*
! tll:lt Col( ! ejection
l ulfct °' vos ? ls to the
ne j5 r ° v .«te is refuted , by Camden enun-
1 ty, win:*li , elected a c< lored Legislator,
1 £ (,in k r /° l ‘ Norwood. Gov Oohvitt re
! reived a large majority of the white vote
?l,ul '; irnPfl Mv- Norwood’s nativecoun
It was q aterloo.
- ~tt>* - . ■ ■ ■
Aii <!»vcrtnrii of Bvnnty,
riM J Ue otllor tla y a y° u »g took two
; ladies in the buggy with him—one of
| Association tl,em a Hexington Beaverdam. belle—to carry to the
at AV hei> op*
P os '*- e Ruku Johnson’s the horse
around, overturning tipi buggy,
emptying the contents in a heap on tlie
i ground Uer and of demolishing the vehicle. the Happily top and
o! Mies parts the
escaped ^ with a few slight scratch*
eS) bll!: came near being a serious
accident. ,
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......Mr. D. O. A.. ’.Villianw, of tips county f
^ maud at, tliu famous clothing eiqporE
i . in , >f Simon Hertz, Athens.
fun stiv a pitry is conteiniJ^tlpg otl'tripg fyg