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THE ECHO.
Lexington, Ga., Friday, Feb. 27, 1885.
PERSONAL PRATTLE.
Pencil Points Pertaining to People Pensive¬
ly Penned.
George Faust may go back to Texas.
.“Es-Post-Facto,” is thrice welcomed.
.High Arnold will attend school at He
son.
......George M. Faust is in Simstou district,
on a visit.
......The evil doer fears Marshal Deadwyler.
He always nabs them.
......Mrs. P.oane lias her new home furnish¬
ed like a fairy palace.
......Dr. M. G. Little takes the iced cake as
an originator of jokes.
......Mrs. IV. T. Doster will continue to feed
the prisoners for awhile. •
Mr. Oscar \\ lieeles, of Simstou district,
lias a child dangerously ill.
.Mr. Tom Stewart is expected from Phil¬
adelphia the first of next week.
......Sorry to know that Rev. J. II. Echols
continues in rather feeble health.
......Messrs. W. J. Kuox and J. M. Paul
speak of going to the Exposition.
......Prof. Moss was in Wilkes county sur¬
veying Friday and Saturday last.
......Prof Moss is one of the best Sunday
school superintendents in the State.
......Mr. J. I. Callaway’s two children have
been quite siek this week with colds.
......II. McWhorter, Esq., went to Washing¬
ton Tuesday on professional business.
......Col. T. J. Howard has Brunswick in
his mind as the place for him to settle.
......Sorry to hear of the severe illness of
Mr. W. W. Berry, during the past week.
......Mr. Joseph Glenn is quite sick with
pneumouia at his home in Simstou district.
, ......Capt. J. J. Daniel, of Woodstock, spent
Tuesday night last with friends in this city.
. ..Mrs. Arnold is meeting house with in splendid
success with her boarding Athens.
......Mr. O. II. Arnold was quite sick with a
severe sick headache on Saturday night last.
......Mr. R. C. Latimer was inquiring
price of a ticket to the Exposition the other
day.
......Mr. W. T. Witcher, of Crawford, makes
a good newspaper canvasser, though it’s a
joke.
......Lee and Jewett Callaway and Nat Ar¬
nold speak of going to the Exposition in a few
weeks.
.....George Faust will not work for Arnold
» <& Stewart. He has not decided yet what he
will do.
......Miss Nellie Bird, the pretty traveling
agent of the Sunny South, was in Lexington
Monday.
......(’apt. Hutchins is able to walk about
his room, ami hopes to be out iu another week
or ten da Vs.
.....Col Howard says his advertisement in
the Echo has brought him seyeral applicants
for his larm.
the ......Capt. Dozier says Georgia’s exhibit at
Exposition consists of a still and a picture
of Joe Brown.
......A child of Mr. Will Tom Martin is
dangerously ill at the home of its parents iu
{Simston district.
......Mr. J. M. Hawkins, of Jackson county,
paid relatives iu this county a visit the latter
part of last week.
..... Aunt Wash Brooks visited Walton
county last Sunday and Monday. Don’t ask
him his business.
.....Messrs. John Knox, Lee and Jewett
Callaway attended church at 8ardis, Wilkes
county, iast Sunday.
..... We are glad to know that Mrs. Stella
Oliver has about recovered from her severe
sickness of last wtek.
......Major Roane paid liis new home Sparta a vis¬
it Sunday last, lie is stationed at
with a drove of horses.
......Judge Gilliam spent a part'of last week
in Oconee county, looking tor the, fair one
that sent him a valentine.
......Mr. Stone, the blind broom maker from
Covington, drummed Lexington Wednesday
in the interest of his wares.
......It is Mr. J.. W. Moire instead of W. J.
Wise who has the school at Union Grove, in
the upper part of the county.
.......John Culbreth, of the Ga. R. R., has
given orders for building a residence at Craw¬
ford. Then what will fallow?
J. W. Patman, the 6 feet 2 inch dwarf,
was in to wn Wednesday looking after some
improvements to his lot in this place.
......Miss Claude Thompson visited her
home tolks in this place {Saturday and .Sunday
last, to the delight of her many friends.
......Two letters directed in a fine hand and
postmarked New Orleans, has given Mr. J. T.
M. ilaire a desire to see the great show.
...... Messrs. Joe Driscol and Athens, T. B. Lumpkin,
of the Mullane company, paid our
city a short visit Wednesday evening last.
......Mr. Bob Berry, of Atlanta, will find a
warm welcome jeweler’s on liis return to Crawford. Oglethorpe,
lie will open a shop in
......The beautiful Nat Arnold, from the,
Wilds Ol Cherokee <’orner, spent Sunday in ,
Lexington to the discomfiture of some o. the !
.... Master \V. from
as on Wednesday evening last. Saying he
has enough, and will make Georgia his future
home.
.....Miss Do!a Hawkins, of the Clouds
Creek neighborhood, spei.t the first part of
this week with Mrs. W. G. Johnson, in Lex¬
ington.
.. The ever clever and genial Will Peek,
of Woodstock, gave us a most pleasant call on
Wednesday, while oil hi* way home from
Athens.
.....Mr. Dee Smith, a lorrner citizen of
Oglethorpe, now of Ilall county, has been vis¬
iting Mr. M. L. Raines, in {Simston disfriet,
this week.
......Ex-Judge Pottle and Solicitor Howard
met in criminal combat iu two cases at Gla*s
cek Coiirf mst week. The ex-Judge came
out second best.
......Hon. Robert McWhorter had his pock
«n l !hftrain t C 1 "^furday^s he'was'ou 'ills
way to Lexington.
’....Mr. Usher Thompson, well known in
Lexington, was married last week to a Miss
Flora Fowler, ot Covington, a^ed 15 years,
The groom is only 10.
......Mrs. S. Savins celebrated her 80th
birth-day estimable on Sunday lady last. We are hale glad to
say this is quite and
hearty for oue of her age.
......Capt. T. II. Dozier and Mr. J. W. Ar¬
nold got back from the Exposition on Thurs
day of last week. They were in a railroad
smash-up on their return.
......Miss Jones, niece of the late W. T.
Doster and who nursed him during the last
month ol his sickness, returned to her home
in Jackson county Tuesday last.
.....Dr. P. R. Bradford returned from New
Orleans, where he has been Monday attending lectures He
during the past winter, on last.
has a warm welcome back to Oglethorpe
Air. G.W. Smith has so far recovered
as to be able to sit up, tiut his physicians say
......Messrs. R. L. and Vase McWhorter, of
Greene eounty, and C. W. Baldwin, Ed Sunday San
ford andT. L. Gantt, of Athens, spent place. Mr.
with H. McWhorter, Esq., of this take bird
Baldwin staid over Monday to a
......Mr. E. E. Cheney, a most excellent
gentleman from Greene county, who has re¬
cently taken charge of Capt. J. I. Callaway’s
plantation in this county, gave u» a call Wed¬
nesday. Mr- C. is one of the Echo’s staunch¬
est and most appreciated friends.
Whisk} tame.
Prohibition has been carried in Athens,
and that destroyer of home and happiness is
gone, but those watches, clocks and jewel
rv sold so cheap bv - Skiff, the jeweler are
notali gone. „ If they were the stock won, a
W replenished.
COUNTY GOSSIP.
AS WE GET IT OVER OUR GRAPE
VINE TELEPHONE.*
A Kaleidoscope Filled with the tsayinprs,
llnppeiiniiias and Doings in this County*
Turned by the Engine of the Echo. As Our
Reporters Find the News.
... .More of it.
... We’ll go dry. ».
... .No dry wells.
... .Another sleet.
... .More pleasant.
... .Attend the hall.
,.. .The Echo floats.
... Impatient farmers.
... .Our whist club will eat.
... .Sleek day Tuesday last,
... .Talking spring fashions.
... .Bird hunting is on a rage.
... .No sales for next Tuesday.
... .Garden seed find slow sale.
... .That railroad will be built.
....Gardens just a month behind.
.. .Suekor fishing has commenced.
.. .Large sales of supplies continue.
. .Better look after your sidewalks.
,
.Correspondents newsy this week.
...
... More and more sickness reported.
... .Nobody hardly in town this week.
... .Some dust was kicked up Monday.
... .No preaching in town last Sunday.
... .The mud don’t stop guano hauling.
... .All the news in our correspondence.
... .Horse drovers have left us in disgust,
... .Shad is furnished our people weekly.
' ... .Court in Madison county next week.
,...J. M. Paul has a fresh lot of dates.
....Oat farmers haven’t entirely given
up.
... .The new academy at Crawford is a
daisy.
.Bowling-Green district is without a
. . .
bailiff.
....Athens has a real negro minstrel
troupe.
... .Preaching at Methodist church next
Sunday.
.. .The Ecno job office gets all the work
it can do.
... .Those robins only staid with ns one
or two days.
... In the flatwoods oats are never en¬
tirely killed
...It is to be hoped we will have an
early spring.
... Oak wood is getting to be a luxury
iu these parts.
... .Another shad supper by the boys
Tuesday night.
... .One mail a day is all that is allowed
Lexington now.
... .Prohibition is a dead certainty in
this county now.
... Thanks for the many good words
said of us lately.
... .The monied men of Lexington are
talking railroad.
... .Doctors report considerable neural¬
gia in the county.
... Dick, the barber, will be in Lexing¬
ton Tuesday next.
... .Cows dying all over the county with
something like fits.
... .Two stocks fill Arnold & Stewart’s
store to overflowing.
... .Nearly everybody seems to be glad
of the consolidation.
....An organ grinder passed through
the county last week.
... .Fruit trees are generally beginning
to bloom by this time.
....The thermometer bobbed up and
down all day Tuesday.
.... Wednesday in Athens decided pro¬
hibition in Oglethorpe.
... .When it rains the Ordinary’s office
is the same as out-doors.
... .Those who fail to attend the inaugu¬
ral ball will miss a treat.
... .There is an outburst of railroad talk
in this place occasionally.
... .A high bailiff of this county has got
into considerable trouble.
.. .High waters will cause fishermen to
have a fat time this spring.
... .Several of our citizens witnessed the
fun in Athens Wednesday.
... .A wheelbarrow and barrel race is
spoken of to revive the rink.
....Oglethorpe county cannot support
two papers as they should be.
...The Crawford Methodist church
should be built this summer.
.... Il will cost twenty dollars to repair
the broken window in the jail.
We’ll have a Crawford department, H
ghjng llews of lhat town .
.... It is to be hoped that when spring
does come it wifi remain with'us. ...
... , Nexl Tuesday will be a good day to
hand us two dollars for lhe Echo.
.. .Guano commands almost the entire
attention of the fanner at present.
.. The Watson’s mill bridge will bo of
| little benefit to Oglethorpe county,
... .No one from this county will attend
the inaugural ion next Wednesday.
.. Many of our people are plated oyer
the success of prohibition in Clarke.
. .. \V hen we get straightened out the
Echo will be made better than ever.
1 ... Our girl? wish for pretty weather
that thev mav take horse-back rides.
.. T i,e long cold spell has caused ?ev
era! of our citizens to get out of coal.
^ven greatly retarded by the weather,
....Couldn’t the Crawford Dramatists
gi v « « s **» entertainment fora change.
. . .A lady in Lexington has packed up
enough snow to last her until summer.
... .The weather changes just about oft
| en enough to keep up the stock of colds.
... .All the new county officers have got
ten fully broken in and are down to work.
.. .A sehool census of the county will
be taken soon by the sehool commissioner.
... .Tht Crawford fire com pan v is not
composed of boys, but of (he solid citizens,
... .The competing hack drivers make
it lively for travelers as they get off the
train.
• • • • A railroad to Lexington will not
materially damage Crawford, as many
think,
... .A bridal tour from this county to
‘ S m ^ m ° ttth ° f
What became of that company of
merit ... ,There Lexington will be some that, railroad will
in soon surprise
the natives.
... .There is no truth whatever in the
t that another paper will be started
at < raw ord.
Aeommiltee of gentlemen wilprob
a roi£ road m JiTton .ex ngt n. * r “''
....The town council will have the
streets pot in thorough order when the
weather will permit. *
... The probabilities are that the whis¬
tle of the locomotive will sound in Lexing¬
ton before the leaves begin to turn.
• - Th f P*?P !e Brown's neighborhood
are eomplaimng that their hogs are Ail
tiyj n gw-ith some unknown disease, sefne
cholera.
Winfrey—Jackson.
Married, at the home, of the bride, in
Jackson county, on Wednesday last, Mr.
Bartow Winfrey, of Stephens, this county,
and-Miss Jackson. Peace, prosperity ami
plenty ever be theirs.
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Tile Inlltlgiiral Rail.
The young people are making large prep
araiions for the inaugural ball to be given
next Wednesday night. Invitations will
be issued to-day, and should the .weather
permit a largo crowd is expected. It will
be the grandest dance ever given in this
place.
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Rack to Georgia.
J. W. Echols, Esq., arrived from Penn¬
sylvania on Monday last. While he is not
entirely decided, he thinks he will pitch
his tent, and become a citizen of Ogle¬
thorpe again, continuing the practice of
his profession. His many friends in the
county hope he will.
Prohibition in Athens.
We rejoice at the decided defeat of whis¬
ky in Clark county on Wednesday last,
the majority for prohibition being 571 in a
vote of not over 800. It is said that only
eighteen white votes were cast for liquor.
The election was quiet and orderly.
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It’s Time So be Mind.
During cold, damp weather like we have
been having, there is more comfort in a
good pair of shoes than anything else. Ar¬
nold & Stewart can certainly furnish this
comfort. The consolidation of their two
stocks of goods has overstocked them in
this line, and t h ?y will sell exceedingly low
to reduce their stock.
...
A Summer Home.
Mrs. J. D. Mathews, of Alabama, moth¬
er of Mrs. Sam Lumpkin, of this place,
has purchased of Capt. T. R. Willis his
splendid home and farm one mile from
Centerville, in Wilkes county, and will
make it her summer home. We are ex¬
ceedingly glad to have this most estimable
lady move nearer to us.
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A1 moat a l ive
On Friday night last, Miss Patsy Sparks,
an aged maiden lady who lives by herself
near Dr. W. M. Brawner’s, in Simston
district, in some way set her bed on fire, it
is thought from her pipe. She is almost
helpless, and had not her screams brought
assistance she would have been burned to
death. All her bed-clothing was destroyed.
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A Cross tlai'k.
Look after your name this week and see
if there is not a cross mark. If there is
you need not cuss us or the post-master if
you do not get a paper next week. We
have given you fair warning and notifica¬
tion, and when we say a thing we mean it.
The cash-in-advance plan is our only plan,
and one we’ll stick to if we burst, but that
will never be.
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Thu IUiiIIuiio Company.
The above has become a fixture fn Ath¬
ens. In conversation with Mr. Mullane
last week, he told us he would bring on by
long odds the largest and most choice slock
of goods this spring that he has ever hand¬
led, and that be intended to open the peo¬
ple’s eyes as to prices. When the right time
comes look out for their mammoth advert¬
isement.
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On Sunday night last a cabin on Mrs. S.
G. Willingham’s place, near the tanyard,
was discovered to bo on fire, all of one side
of it being in a light blaze. By strenuous
efforts it was extinguished, but not until
most of the clothing belonging to the oc¬
cupant had been destroyed. It was evi¬
dently the work of an incendiary and sus¬
picion points to the wife of the resident
negro, he having discarded and run her off
a few days previous.
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niii'ii the Bugle Blond.
Will Deadwyler ha?, forihe convenience
of the people, procured a bugle, which he
will blow at the arrivals and departures of
bis hack. By this our people will be in¬
formed of his goings and comings. All
packages left at Latimer Bros., will have
his best attention, and there a slate will be
found upon which any order can be writ¬
ten. Will is enterprising and will do all
in his power to please and accommodate
the public.
Smith it Brooks Mfusolve.
On Wednesday morning last the firm of
Smith & Brooks, of this place, was dis¬
solved, Mr. G. W. Smith buying Mr. G.
\V. Brooks’interest in the store. Ill health
made it necessary for Mr. Smith to quit
business for awhile at least and lie made a
proposition to Mr. Brooks, which he was at
liberty to give or take, and he took. Mr.
Smith will probably close up the business
llnti | he ljeeomPS M ],] e to attend to it. Mr.
Brofik , wjI j lak( , charge of his bar and fam
.. ,iy «"***’ noW under , char « e ot . Mr ... W J r
’ ’ ’
Doster.
...
Fleming A Bottle*.
Mr. Jas. L. Fleming, recently of Fiem
ing & Loflin, Augusta, having formed n
co-partnership with Mr. J. L. Bowies, the
well-known furniture dealer of that town ’
makes the firm Rallies as above. They will
conduct the furniture business at the old
stand of J. L. Bowles & Co., 840 Broad
street, and they have the best wishes for
success. 1 wo such men need no guatan
tee or recommendation. All who know
them will feel satisfied that they will keep
the best, in the market and sell il at the
lowest prices,
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A Successful Newspaper Venture.
W A & L. Shackelford, publishers and
. .
proprietors of the Oglethorpe Echo, who
recently bought the News-Monitor, of
Crawford, Ga„ have, as it were, risen,
I >h «nix-lik«, from the ashes. With that
Echo about two years ago from T. L.
Oanlt, paid for it since that time, and,
thoueh 7 vounir '/ ’ men have steered it though
' he o n takers a ! m of opfKiMt.on m. and 1 i estahhshjl t i . i
. . . ■
miration of a large and growing p m Me
Th ' 3 fhOWi Wha ,,lu ' k ,‘ an d °- T h T
rank high as young journal,^, and . have
made the Echo one of the best weeklies in
tbe gtat , therefore being one of the
advertising . .. . mediums in Georgia. .... D e
are pleased td pay them r 1 ’* * ' !u
pliment, to show } ou how the Echo is es
teemed at home.— Cor. Co 1 iiaiion. Tbe
hope that we have merited and wi.l com iu
ne to merit such praise is our dniy com
noent, with thanks.
FROM CORRESPONDENTS.
The Work ol the Manipulators of the Other
E'liris of Our Graptvviiic Telephone. Ogle¬
thorpe County Localized by Sections.
UNION GROVE.
CRITIC.
If there is any virtue in snow and sleet we
may look for a beautiful harvest this year.
Mr. James Eidson, of Big creek, is all
smiles again. It’s a girl this time, and don’t 1 '
weigh but ten pounds.
Mr. J. I). Elder is one of the best farmers
in tiie county, and is also a neighbor and all
that that implies.
Mr. B. A. Christopher has had a cyclone
pit made at his home. We haven’t heard
whether he intends remaining in the pit and
waiting the storm or carry it about with him
in search of cyclones.
The way in which the Athens post office
has been managed lately has been a source of
inconvenience 16 those who receive their mail
from country post offices through the Athens
office, by having their mail sent and mis-sent
all over the adjoining counties. We are not
the only one by any means that will rejoice
when Mr. Cleveland calls on “my dear Mat”
to step down and out.
WOODSTOCK.
SPENCER.
More sleet.
Oats very dead.
Seed oats in demand. High priced, too.
Jao. Glenn is solid when you give him that
old pipe.
IIo, for prohibition. Lets have it in Ogle¬
thorpe.
The young folks will probably have a phan¬
tom party soon.
The agricultural elud talked guano Satur
day.
Sam Daniel offers his Cue setter for sale
cheap.
Several of the’ Woodstockers attended
preaching at Sardis Sunday.
Dr. Anderson is having his garden re-mod
died. .
Will Peek has bought Sam Daniel’s buggy
ami is having it overhauled by Levi Smitln
Washington.
“Spencer” sp ent Tuesday at the hospitable
home of A. C. Daniel, lie is one of the best
horse traders in Georgia.
GLADE.
SPHINX.
Setting by fires.
Freezing weather.
The prettiest Sunday. *
Not a furrow been run.
Farmers considerably behind.
Standing-wages hands are having a sweet
time.
A skating rink is spoken of being organized
at this jdace.
The Broad River shop is doing a larger bus¬
iness this year than last.
Those cyclone pits ore done and they are
ready to resist all terrors and storms.
The people of this community speak of or¬
ganizing an agricultural society.
If you warn to get a buggy eal! at the Glade,
the cheapest village in the county.
Mr. J. S King is the happiest man in the
whole village. It’s a girl.
The oats are considerably damaged, if not
entirely killed out.
Mr. II. M. Wootten will open a school near
the Glade, at Sweetwater, on the 2d of March.
He is from Anon.
If the ECHO keeps improving as it has for
the last year, it will be the best paper- in the
South, without a doubt.
NEAR CLOUDS CREEK.
(i. H. II.
Mr. Mitch Martin is sick with cold.
Mr. John Kidd’s arm is nearly well.
MissSallio Howard is quite sick with cold.
Mr. Hugh Arnold paid Mr. and Mrs. E. W.
Johnson a visit last week.
Charlie Patridge is drawing shingles for
Howard & Bro.
Mr. John W. Jarrell is suffering with severe
cold.
Mr. William Turner, of the Glade, paid us
u visit one day last week.
Mrs. George II. Howard is suffering with
sore eyes.
Mr. Carlton is teaching school near Mr.
Obediah Stevens’.
Howard & Bro. have ground two hundred
and seventy bushels of corn this year.
Mr. John II. Tiller and I). C. Smith were
at Mt. Pleasant last Sabbath.
We fear that small grain is fearfully in¬
jured.
Some unknown thief broke into J. W. Jar¬
rell's store last Saturday night, carrying off
about twenty or thirty dollars’ worth of goods.
Rev. Mr. Seals preached a very interesting
and instructive sermon at Mt. Pleasant last
Sabbath. He gave all who heard him some
good advice.
L AiRDST OWN.
PLOW-BOY.
Bad roads.
That marriage is close at hand.
Only one more loafer left in town.
j Working the roads over in Greene.
Mr. Enoch Geer sold his horse last week.
Cheney & Callaway have a fine little mare
for sale.
Mr. English was made sheriff of Greene
county last week.
A negro named Pat Moody was mashed j
very badly last week at a logrolling. I
The school at this place is still increasing
iu Capt. members. (Jorum was up a visit to hisdaugh- j |
on
ter last Saturday. i
Go to Cheney & Callaways to buy your
Irish potatoes. Only $t..50 per bushel.
& Closing Callaway’s. out winter calico at cost, at Cheney j
Charley Lankford says lhat he wouldn’t go I
int0 a ,,j t jf p e , aw a ,.y c | otJe coming. j
Mr. J. H. Wilson has posted his land, and
w jn en f„ rce t h e l aw in every instance.
Mr. Will Young has quit the machine bus- ;
ines and will try his luck on the railroad. j
Mr. C. T. Young had one of his cows killed
by the train the other day aud secured dama
ges.
Mr. W. II. Guill went to Augusta last Sun- j
day to act as train hand on a freight from Au
gusta to Atlanta.
Thanks to Code Garner Hobbs’ dream,
Since reading \ achti’s dots wc feel somewhat
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ANTIOCH.
bad eoy.
Small.grain having a hard time. I
Sabbath-school somewhat ^“isTof reviving
AUanta to
haccoed Antioch Saturday
Foriee<Jcat * to MoW horter ’ Adkins &
Go’s.
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ , n(J baco „
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Charlie Hunter , saya , ae never heard . , of , a
Jow ,i y - ia , r
Antioch isaloing a big business ia tbe pro
i
j- • ..lin Christopher, the boys’ man of
iii_, i ,«! s:;i h i on us Sunday morning. I
Me*: J ■ IVbarter, IV. F Mkine. A._
J. Young, B- h -Young, L, 14. census TovJ'y J I FlKl
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ooaths. .
Dr. Little left last Sunday morning for New
Orleans to take in tbe*exposition.
Joe Bowling is looking as sweet and charm
ing as ever.
That bridge on the Bowling-Green road has
been substantially repaired.
You can’t keep J. S. B. from a party, espe¬
cially a valentine party.
Uncle Buck Martin is better, and hopes are
entertained of his recovery.
The cooking club will meet at the residence
ol Mrs, N. II. Hunter to-night.
A Bowling-Green spark took a twelve mile
ride last Friday night. Wonder what’s up.
Why don’t somebody get married and drop
“Bad Boy” a ticket?
We are glad to state that Mr. James Voung
and Mrs. Brisendine both have recovered from
their recent illness.
Miss Katie Hunter, after a delightful so¬
journ of two months in Madison, will return
home to-day.
ROCK FENCE.
VACHTI.
The small grain crop, especially oats, is
almost entirely killed out in this section. *
The chances are for a good Sabbath and
day school at Chandler’s Hill.
We are glad to see that Walter Wise has a
good school. A cleverer boy never lived.
We had the pleasure of shaking hands with
our friend, B. F. the other day, for the
first time in some weeks. ;
Jt is no time or place to attack a man at
Sabbath-school about his stock, unless it is
done in a gentle, manly way. We. hope a
word to the wise will be sufficient.
We will bet two to one that Mr. V. P.
Wynn, F. D. Drake and W. II. Arnold can
kill more birds than any three men in Wood
stock district ** in the county.
The Maxeys correspondent, “Pet,” has a
good deal to say in his last week’s dots about
what the Greenesboro Herald or some scien¬
tific friend had to say about Miss Hurst’s per¬
formance in that place, and attributes hersuc
cess to a knowledge of mechanical laws. Is
it not strange that a young mountain girl who
has been raised without the chances of an ed¬
ucation should obtain such knowledge of this
mechanical law, when there is not one pro¬
fessor of phthisic* in the State who has such
knowledge as to enable him to perform these
feats? If “Pet’s” theory is true, Miss Hurst’s
knowledge of the mechanical laws is a great¬
er mystery than the powers she claims to have.
Every district in this county should organ¬
ize an agricultural club and put themselves in
communication with the agricultural depart¬
ment of the State and with the State society.
The amountofsolid information to be acquired
from these sources is beyond the conception
of those who have not inquired into such mat¬
ters. All new methods in farming, and in
fact all that is new that pertains to agricul¬
ture in any way is gratuitously furnished to
the clubs, and we may say enough is now
known on the subject of farming to raise it to
the highest degree of excellence, if only the
people would reach out their hands and take
the knowledge that is freely offered them.
Besides there is now a great effort being made
throughout thb South to organize the agricul¬
tural class iso that they may use their powers
and take the place in the nation that right¬
fully belongs to them. Let us organize and
join in the work.
NEAR CRAWFORD
EX POST FACTS.
Good morning.
Business is business.
Don’t fail to look sharp.
Oat crops in our section are yery badly
damaged by the hard freezes.
A person that never wrongs any mail—Mr.
Right.
Dollars, like rats, it is a hard job for one
man to capture the last one.
It is not the amount one reads that makes
him wise, but what he understands.
.Some farmers had rather risk dry weal her
to make a crop than to take the chances of n
cyclone.
We are a newspaper correspondent and one
that is determined to write what we see that
is worth the attention of the honored public.
Some people have a way of straining at a
gnat in the morning and swallowing a whirl¬
wind in the evening.
Is it not strange that southern people will
patronize northern institutions to the ruina¬
tion of those of our own country.
We are sorry to lose Mr. G. M. Faust from
Crawford so so n, as we had just added him
to our get list.
It is our opinion that there is more guano
being sold in Crawford than in any previous
year in ten.
The Lexington jail is the best piece of pay¬
ing property this county is in possession of,
and is a sweet place of recreation for the wea¬
ry prisoner.
We heard an honorable physician say the
other day that he received more clear cash
from his practice among the poor eluss than
he did from the, rich.
It seems very plain fo your correspondent
that the colored n f ■?nni the black
smith trade quicker than n»c white, havini£ ,
the advantage of the white to start with.
A good deal of sickness is reported in our
community at this time, but with so many
sudden changes in the weather we could not
expect it otherwise,
We heard a man remark a few days ago
that he did not believe that guano or the fell
ing of timber was the cause of cyclones, but
we, by the earth’s changes/ had been thrown
into a different hemisphere.
The crumbling sands of time are fast rolling
from beneath the feet of the remaining por
tion of the passing generations, and number
them with the untold millions that are gone
on to fill their places in the ranks of the de
parted hosts.
The oat crops of our county would be of a
great deal more benefit if the farmers would
cease to have them threshed, out, hut use in
stead a first-class cutting knife and cut the
straw up fine with the grain~a means that
would induce stock to eat the straw, which is
otherwise a waste,
Is it right or is it wrong for a town to sum
up together two or three hundred dollars and
give it to an able-bodied man in a sleight-of
hand show and theu suffer a poor blind organ
grinder to stand at your doors and grind a day
and a half for sixty-five cent,? Answer for
yours, ves.
sz
drank, which was to sew him ap in a sheep
and give him the cowhide every time and he
would quit getting drunk, or stay away until
^ he got sober. Moral—Keep no cowhide about
We hear a great many farmers complain of
the lack of some one to run them for the pr
ent year, bat I will wager my night cap that
there i, not a gentleman in Crawford or Lex
ington hut what f can get hi run me at two
words, but to what extent depends upon their
speed with mine.
One paper is afl tha'' hjs county needs, and
became the little cbildrVi in our county are
trying to jump up ab* id <.f the older people
is no reason whv a young paper should try to
Cgwn , h , on |- * we ought to have.
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CRAWF OTip.
BERMUDA.
Mr. John Daniel, of Woodstock, wa$ with
us Tuesday.
The gift show was a ffeod of the first water
the last night here.
A Mr. J. J. C. McMahan will probably take
• in the Presidential inauguration.
There is more merchandise in this county
now than was at any one time in five years.
The town authorities license shows at Mar¬
tin hall to the proprietors by the year.
We are on a boom out. here.- Going to have
almost immediately a jeweler, a milliner and
a photographer.
Bring your watches and clocks to Robert
*Bcrry here and have them put to running,
and give him a good start in our county.
Mr. Will Burkhalter, of near Sandy Cross,
arrived this week from Atlanta Medical Col¬
lege. lie will be at home a couple of weeks
and return there to his studies.
Torn Witcher, besides being very much af¬
flicted with wet-weather springs, was the sub¬
ject of a practical joke that furnished amuse¬
ment for the whole town.
Some of our citizens went to Athens Tues¬
day evening to watch the prohibitionists carry
the day \\ ednesday. When this is printed we
will have known the result, and will rejoice
if prohibition succeeds.
Short Bros, are building a residence on one
of the finest lots in town for Mr. John Cul
breth. Johrvis still firing on the road, but
this looks ns if he was going to quit. I guess
we will, know in the spring if John builds it
to rent.
The academy is completed and is now occu¬
pied by” Prof. Cheney’s school. The building
is a good one and a credit to the contractors,
Short Bros. The building should be painted
at once, and it is hoped an effort wilt be made
in that direction immediately.
Mr. Ttobt. Berry is here, and he will at once,
if a suitable house can be secured, go to the
pushing of his business—that of a silversmith.
Mr. Berry is a young man of our own county,
having learned his trade in Atlanta, where he
has been several years, under the best jewel¬
ers, and is no doubt a finished workman. We
welcome him to our town, for we are in need
of just such a man and hope the county will
patronize him liberally.
MAXEYS.
I’lST.
Got the blues.
Hauling guano.
Plowing at last.
Hard and soft roads the same day.
Diverse opinions about the oat crop.
Mr. John W. Moody 1ms bought a fine blnek
horse, and now he splits the air.
Last S unfitly was pretty enough for the av¬
erage dude to turn out.
Two young ladies were out on the road near
here last Sunday learning to ride horseback..
Mr. II. T. Boushell,oneof our best citizens,
has taken the ECHO ever since the first issue.
Madam Rumor says we arc to have a brick
depot at this place ere long. It’s badly needed.
Messrs, Powell & Davenport will use ninety
tons of guano this season.
Storm pits are as frequent as had weather
around here.
Misses Carry and Batty Young, two of An¬
tioch's fascinating bells, paid Maxeys a flying
visit last. Sunday evening.
Mrs. A. T. Brightwell spent part of this
week iu Athens visiting her father, M. Tbos.
Fleming.
Mr. T. W. Powell and sister, Miss Mary,
and Master Sid Reaves left here for Florida
last week, to be gone a mouth.
The young people here are already autiei
paptinS and making arrangements for ti lot of
summer fun.
Dr, T. I. Stevens is expected home every
day from Augusta where he 1ms received the
degree of M. I >.
The boys got Mnj. A. T. Brightwell ofl* in
the swamps bird hunting last Monday night,
but it won’t do to tackle him about it.
The young people had quite an enjoyable
sociable at the residence of Mrs. Dr. Phillips
last Friday evening.
The whole-souled W. W. Brightwell and
family, ol Falling Creek, visited Maxeys last
.Sunday and Monday.
The farmers are using every effort to put in
a few licks on their farm, but the weather,
the weather.
We notice a considerable mania among the
furmers this year for two-horse plows. But it
seems hh though they will not get a chance to
use them.
The masons of Howard Lodge will meet to¬
night, their-regular time, hut perhaps will
change their tune of meeting today time here¬
after.
A Maxeys gentleman has received a fifty
dollar premium for being the best Bible schol¬
ar in several States. The gentleman is a sec¬
ular man, too.
Our people had another seige at tumbling
about on the ice and sleet last Tuesday, and
some arc going about with eyes and arms in
slings.
An old dobauchcr that used to frequent our
town, says on a lull near here is where the
devil trumped the Lord. He took him up on
this hill and made him look in an opposite
direction to Maxeys and told him if he would
fall down and worship him he would give him
all in front, but he wanted the right to reserve
the town of Maxeys for his own use. We can
only consider the source to clear our town of
the impression.
ANON.
JONAH.
Buying.
Blowing.
Burning.
Building.
Oh! that valentine.
Cold, colder, blizzard.
We fear the continued cold weather will in
j j ure t | JC y riim crop
j Ned Norman says be wilt never go to an
oth< , r party „„ „ c|d night,
j j | ( vp Wootea has a good safe family horse
f l)r ga ] e c n eap . /
Mr. Rayle turned horse trader this week.
jj c ^ok in Washington on his trip.
\( r j) (> jjijl’a fine horse, Valone, weigh*
j,870 pounds. lie is a duisie.
Anon j s 8t jjj on y-e improve. It now has a
laundry, two work shops and a fine flouring
Mins Lizzie iirawncr is visiting relatives
Cap. J. W. Arnold returned from the New
Orlea-e exposition last week highly pleased
w j t h his trip.
beav'r Col. Torn Pope now sports a road cart and a
hat. He will farm this year so he can
haul np his crop in the cart and Btore it in bis
,,at. We wish him much success in hi. new
ondCTtaklnR .
Miss Perlina ffewell is attending school at
Helena this year. She hoards with her broth
^ j K j iarn> w | JO has rented the Worthen place.
\Ve are glad to know Mr. Bell has has a tine
,C 'lw."w"mnhs. a fine school at th. Hill
academy, near Station eburcb. We think tbe
„,nnnii„ily fortunate in securing such an ex
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hope he will find it to his interest to remain
V ' *r
with us sdrofelgrears, for he is quite an ac-'
quisltion to aiiy comm unity. *
The attention of the road commissioners is
called to the road from Anon'to Brooks' mill.
It is almost impassable, and unless fixed soon
ssme mpientior.*?* one may fcuiyc to pay damages. ** Verburrt
sat . ‘ r
Mr. Itayle is one of the best country mer¬
chants we ever knew, and the community is
to be congratulated upon keeping him. He
keeps everything needed on a farm, from a
needle to a mule, and Sells at very* low price#
We never knew him to sue a customer or fore¬
close lien. 1 His success is due to close atten¬
tion to business and fair dealings with all.
Long may he live to enjoy the fruits of his la¬
bors and the confidence of his fellowraen,
which he so richly deserves. '
•We have left off teaching the young idea
how; to shoot, and will try to teach the young
plant to shoot. While teaching, we some¬
times ventured suggestions and advice to the
farmers, but since we commenced farming we
feel that we need all the light and advice we *
can get on the subject, and hope ye correa- 1
pondents will send it right along each week.
As how to manage a farm reminds us of what
a gentleman once said about managing a tad
wife, viz: “Everybody knows better how to .
manage a bad wife than the man that’s got 4
her.”
The event of the season was the valentine
sociable given by Mrs. Ishara He well last
week. At an early hour the. guest began to
arrive and soon the house was full of young
people, who seemed bent on having a fine
time, and right well did they enjoy them¬
selves. Messrs. Wall, Evans, Brooks and
Baughn furnished splendid music for the oc¬
casion, and ever and anon above the sound of
violins and dancers could be heard the voice
of an asthmatic prompter, “balance all.” The
occasion was one of great pleasure to-all pres¬
ent.
Mr. M. II. A mason has invented a portable
stock fence which is undoubtedly ahead of
anything we have seen. He uses tie iron a*
braces, which is indeed the idea. Mr. Ama
son was the^flrst man ever to put iron ou a
cotton bale, and if lie hud continued to ad¬
vance his idea no doubt lie would have real
ileil a fortune ou the invention, as others did
afterwards. His great trouble in using them
on cotton was lmw to fasten them. He first
tried tivets, but that was too slow and expen¬
sive, and at last used a chain link, very much
the same way in which the button of the
Aroii tie is used now. That was In 1861, when
he was overseeing for Mr, Andrew Goolsd.v,
who could not get any rope to tic his cotton
with, lie tied eighteen bales with hoop iron,
which attracted much attention at the time,
ami we are astonished that ties were not in¬
vented sooner, We believe Mr. Amason’s
fence will some day take the place of the old
worm fence altogether, and if the patent is
used properly we think and hope Mr. Aina
son will realise a fortune on it.
We are seldom poetry struck, but send the
following on the girls of the Flatwoods :
T here’s Minnie with the smiling face,
And Pope with the witching eye.
There’s Melissa with stately graee.
There’s And /ne I’erlina that with is modest the winning and shy. air,
And Della that’s reserved and cold*
There’s Kate with the raven hair*
And the girl that’s is rather old.
There’s “Dump” • - v io that with grand and tall,
But And girl beats dimpled them all chin;
the that
Is the girl that hits the tin.
P. S. Mhe is my style.
In Ntemorlam.
Moi.i.ie Gi.unn was the daughter of our
liighbor and friend, Joseph Glenn, of this
(Simston) district, and liked only 1 about nine
days of being seventeen years old at the time
of her dentil, which sad event took place on
Monday, the 16th of February, 1886. About
a week before she died she was attacked with
pneumonia, and though constantly attended
by a skillful physician, grew gradually worse
until death ended her sufferings.
Mollie was beautiful/ iftie and good. She
was beautiful in person, us well as beautiful
in the sweet simplicity and gentleness of her
disposition ; true in the unaffected sincerity of
her words and actions, anil good in her free¬
dom from Selfishness, mid in her efforts to
promote the happiness of those around her.
These qualities made her a loving anil obe¬
dient daughter, an affectionate sister and
faithful friend. Bbe was almost the Idol of
her household and a favorite in the circle ef
her associates.
The death of one so young, so beautiful and
with such promises of long life, should warn
Mollie’s associates to heed the adhonition.
"lie ye also ready.” The grief-strickv
rents have sympathy of theentirecomma.
May they be consoled with the hope tha.
heaven lias opened to Mollie and that they
have an invisible tie that shall ever bind them
closer to God. W, E. Faust.
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X.nvul Po.Mv.mfoiforA,
Once every four years the Ordinary haa
to appoint three land commissioners in
each militia district, whose duty it is to see
to the running of disputed lines between
property, and the like. Tuesday last Or¬
dinary Gilham appointed the following:
Lexington district—M. W. Johnson, J.
S. Banghn «nd G. Wash Brook*.
Crawford—P. T. Berry, L. M. Johnson,
I). M. Gaulding,
Situs-on—-John H. Tiller, ft’. E. Faust,
Geo. W. fLiAZ.
Glade—T. U. Title?. B, H. Witfc.rrTT
M. M.lhews.
Grove Creek—J. VV. Jarrell, C. A. Ste¬
vens, F. R. Howard.
Pleasant Hill—J. D. Power, Benj.
Webb, J. E. Collier,
* Beaverdant—if, A. Hayes, I. H.Pittard,
W. J. Flceman.
Wolfskin—Ed. Martin, C. T. Curaming,
W. J. Crowley.
Falling Creek—W. B. Campbell, W.
W. Bright well,.Thos, J. Young.
Bowling-Green—R. S. Freeman, W. F.
Smith, J. W. Howard.
Bairdstown—C. T. Young, J. W. Moo¬ ■
dy, W. H. Cheney.
Woodstock—J, J. Daniel, R. J. Arnold,
K. M. Drake.
“ stmnT^n'c. ri«.h»Toni
A, will be to our.d
vert Wii£ oolamo*. Mr. C. D. Flnnlfwl*
offwin _ hj(l ent j re 8foc t „t asaerifitj. Our
1 1 ' , ’ thej . L
pleasant , and i pro^(ita «, , fie u , ass lec o
with this g-ntlem.n, MJ we Hope h. will.
ere long, lie with us again. lie offers yoa
at present a chance ef a lifetime to get
crockery cheap.
«*«
(Jol 'Km Title Tim*.
The reports from oats grow worse and
worse. The continued hard freezes the
last of last and fit>lof this week fan 1
ed havoc wUh . them and it is feared IW»
i# only a few 1 f any left to mature. LU
daunted though, we have hettrd many f*r
,b .7 wiU r w ^f i "*r; nMlh *
weather will permit. i That’s right. :