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WHOLESALE TALMADGE, HODGSOM & CO. GROCERS AND COTTON BU YERS agents for orange rifle powder and new arrow cotton tie. bagging, bagging, bagging, SALT, SALT. SALT. MEAT, LARD, MOLASSES, SYRUP OF ALL GRADES, STAPLE DRY G000S, BOOTS & SHOES LOWER THAN ANYBODY, AND ALL KINDS OF FARM SUPPLIES WHOLESALE AND RETAIL BUYERS, GIVt US A CALL WHEN YOU ARE IN ATHENS. ^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 ' mbieulSS ... , k „ , ' ma ' ' ' | ......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, —«•*--- 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. --- *** '- 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. —-- 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. —--♦♦♦—- 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. ————«•*-- 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, ---♦♦♦-- 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 --- -- 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. —-— --- 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. -««*- 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. ——--«•«———-— 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. --- 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. - ■■■------— 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. -- 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. -- 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. -----♦♦♦ 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. -- +++—~~~ 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. ----- 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. ------ 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. , -------— ......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