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MICHAEL BROS,
ATHE1TS, QEOEG-IA,
TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, SATURDAY, APRIL 2d, 3d, (th, 1895.
Greatest Display Ever Held in North Georgia.
The Ladies’ Garden Club of Athens will have Charge of our Store Saturday,
April 6th, and will Offer Some Rare Bargains.
MICH ABL/ BROS., ATHBNS, GA.
The Oglethorpe Echo
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EORGIA, Oglethorpe Letters County.—A ppliea*
tion for of Dismission.—Whereas.
A. T. Brightghtwell ami W. O. Findley, execu
tors on estate of O. I*. Findley, dec’d, apply vo
me for letters of Dismission from said estate:
These are, therefore, to cite amt admonish all
persons interested, said to show cause, if &nv thev
can, first why letters should not be granted on
the Monesv in May, ittt This 18th day of
February, 1895
J. J. BACON, Ordinary, O. C.
i * Y ' EOR61A, tasters OGLKmOU-K COVKTV.—AppUca
Uon for of llUmission.—Whereas,
W. K. Faust, executor on estate of Mrs. Rebecca
Dismission Butler, deceased, from applies to me for (otters of
said estate: These are, there¬
fore, to cite aud admonish all i>ersons Interested
to scow cause, if any ibev can, why said letters
should not be granted on the flret Monday in
May. tftiJ. 1 his, Feb. It, 1895.
J. J. BACON, Ordinary, O. C.
THE OGLETHORPE ECHO, LEXINGTON, GA.: FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1895.
NOT IN WOMAN’S DRESS.
The Story of Davis’ Capture Told By
One of His Captors.
The visit of the Wisconsin state
commission to Chattanooga last week
to finally fix the position of their troops
at the battles of Chickamauga iu pre¬
paration for the location of monuments
has brought to light the real facts as
to tho capture of Jefferson Davis.
The head of the confederacy has al¬
ways been misrepresented as dressed
when taken prisoner in women’s
clothes, and the enormous hoopskirts
then worn by the gentle sex. Brig.
Gen. Henry Hamden, then lieutenant
colonel of the First Wisconsin cavalry,
is present as a member of the commis¬
sion, and denies the current stories as
false in this particular. Gen. Ham¬
den, though now a white-haired vet¬
eran of 73, grows indignant whenever
he talks of what be terms the gross ex¬
aggerations of a very natural action by
Mr. Davis.
In relating the story, he said:
“May (5, I HI i5, with 1 was 150 specially detailed
from Macon picked men of
tho First Wisconsin cavalry, the only
command then armed with Spencer re¬
peating carbines, by Gen. James II.
Wilson to overtake and capture Jeffer¬
son Davis, who was then makiug bis
way iu the path of Breckinridge and
Benjamin, south, via Florida to Cuba,
Our course described a circle so that
we were overtaken by Col. later Pritchard,
who was sent Michigan out two days with
the First cavalry. The lat
ter pushed ahead during the night, as
news of the *100,000 reward offered
May b had reached camp before his
troops left, but we came 10. upon them
before day the of dark, May repued 1 hey fired
upon us in wo and
drove them back and capturing a Mich
.gau cavalryman first soldiers. discovered wc
were figh Pritchard ing our own killed 1 wo
ot Col. s men were
and a number wounded.
“Mr. Davis was encamped with a
party of forty or fifty about six rods
away iron, the skirmishing lines just
over a little swamp and asleep at the
time, but was awakened by the first
hnng and dressing quickly stepped
out into the door of h.s tent. As he
dtd so a private of the I nst Michigan
cried halt, but did not know who he
had captured until 1 approached. The
t.rs man I addressed was the eoufed
crate postmaster general, Mr. Reagan
ot 3ET&& Texas, since senator, who very
Tho I no soldier soldier who who arrested arrtsteti Mr. Mr Davis ,l '! 8 I
said he had a shawl thrown over his
shoulders When he first saw him 1
reported this circumstance to Gen
k:
was telegraphed out front there and in
the confusion fact by misunderstanding,
the simple magnified of wearing his ridiculous wife s
shawl, was iuto a
story that the president of the south
ern confederacy was disguised iu
women's clothes. I have always
branded it as utterly false aud fre
quently at post reunions have made
myself exceedingly unpopular by deny- those
‘ D S tllis for uu Duths like
are sometimes pleasant to believe. I
would not injure Mr. Davis if I could
by allowiug a false impression which I
was uuwilhugly instrumental in
ting “The to prevail.’ teak place iu
capture Irwinville, a Irwin
of pine trees near
county, Georgia, where Mr. Davis with
his small party had pitched two Davis tents, aud
The party consisted of Mr.
Mr. Heagan, Col. Harris, his private
secretary, Mrs. Davis aud her sister,
teamsters and a few unarmed soldiers,
The larger fightiug escort had left him
the day before, and Mr. Davis appear
ed very pettish aud blamed his wife iu
mv my presence 11 rrsen ce for ior delaying ueiay ing them. mem. ouc She
was on the way to her home in Miss
issippi and Mr. Davis* separation
from Gen. Basil Duke’s cavalry liberty, escort
and the delay cost him his
* tbe 0 (her prisoners, except the
chief we parolled. The fallen
tain as he tbeu apjieared was tailish.
but thin featured and nervous, but
very dignified and stately and would
pass for a high-toned gentleman in
any crowd, while he was dressed mod¬
estly, but unusually well for the time.”
A Question That Is Settled.
At the anniversary dinner of the Hi
bernian Societv, in Philadelphia, on
the 18th Inst., Don. Hilary J B. Herbert, ’
Secretary of the Navy, responded , _
to
the tqpst the United .States. lathe
course of his remarks he said the ques
lion of the right of secession was one
that had to be settled, and that the on
ly way it could be settled was by the
sword. He said it was alwajs the nil
nonty section that contended for the
right l» secede. In 1S11 New England
contended lor it, and in 1SG0 0I the
bouili maintained the right. I lie
question was now settled and settled
forever. In the course of his speech,
Secrctary Herbert is quoted as saying:
“F have been frequently asked the
question, How is it that the people ot
the South so readily accepted the re
suits of the war. Now could they
conic back and so soon become loyal
again to the Union? there is no se
cret about it, if we look at the facts as
they aie. 1 here never was a moment
ot the time when the seceding slates
were not under just such a govern
nient as our lathers framed in 1 / .SO.
yVhen l [ u , war was oyer, when slavery,
lbe cause 0 f strife betw’een the two
sections, had perished, when the ques
Uon of secession had been settled,
whon the people of the two sections
ha(1 lcarue d on the field of battle to re
speet J each other as never before,
hon lhe tramp of armies to and fro
acros8 Mason and Dixon’s line bad
opened ‘' the eyes J of the South to the
f ct lhat ther e were no natural barriers
separating the South form the North,
this country J is geographically one
coun , ry ^stored when t he seceding states had
1)een to their status as co
al states iu the Union there was
nothing left to be hoped for or iutelli
gently wished for but Union and con
f ra tor n itv ”
The p ‘ ; idc in thc growth aU(1 great .
ness of tlie country \ is as great in the
South a8 it is in he North, aud the
South would re8 p 0 nd to a call to de
feud lhe national honor as quickly as
the North. Indeed, lhe differences of
the tw0 civilizations-that of the North
aad that of the Soutll _ that existed
ptio ‘ r to the civil war have almost dis-
1 ppearcd j . Uoth civilizations were
U 1 duied by J thal 8truggle , and out of it
lSSs h ni . { d istiuct
WaS recenl ‘J pointed Out in ?V2E a puolie
address in this city. There is no wish
( 0 sever the relations of the two sec
, ions now< The f general wish ia to
make Americau c v iii zat ion the best
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a . nappy p ...„ Motner-$ 7 S. 5 o a wppt wees
Mb. Editor: T . « 7TT I felt so , happy ... that , T 1
must tell, through your valuable paper,
what I did, so others can be happy blue: and
make money too. Things looked
these hard times had thrown my bus
band out of work; the interest on the
mortgage was coming due and no moa
ey. 1 saw an advertisment of the Hap
id Dish Washer and thought I and could
sell them. I sent *5 00, got one my
husband washed the dishes because he
did not have to put his bauds into the
water, and did not have to rub them
nor dry them; they came out all nice
and clean and ready for the shelf. He
also took care of the house and baby.
I got the agency and sold ten the first
day, aud have cleared this week #72.50,
and will by next week have enough will to
pay the interest, and am sure we
have money all winter. Anyone out
of work should to W. P. Harrison &
Go Columbus, Ohio, and eet a circu
xar, lar have na\e a a liannv "“Pt’J homeland »au make
money too. Times are going to be
hard this winter, and much suffering
can be saved if mothers and daughters
would do as I have.
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Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Pow der
worid’* Fair Highest Medal and Diploma.
“Don’t Be a Parrot.”
There is so much gum, so much
good sense iu this editorial from the
Macon Telegraph, that we wish to lay
it before our readers:
“Don’t talk hard times. It is a
senseless, harmful cry, repeated from
mouth to mouth, parrot-like, and serv
00 P«'’Pose save to depress and in
iure individuals, corporations, values
a nd communities,
“It is not necessary to He or boast
aboul good times . It i 8 true that,
comparatively speaking, the country
and ( b is community of course, in com
lnon vvitii other communities, is not
painfully prosperous, but why try to
intensify the cloud that hangs over all
places alike and represent blacker our clouds
as a little hea/ier, a little and
a uttle more threatening than other
sections of the nebulous pall?
;< An untruth may be told aud re
peated 89 often that u is lhja lly ac
cented as true. The talk of extreme
bard times in Macon has been so much
indulged in at home and abroad by
some of her citizens that it is accepted
a8 true bv man y people, and so the
shadow grows to gloom. Unless com
mou 8etl s e alld intelligence oycrcome
this suicidal tendency we may indeed
d j e 0 f asphyxiation, and the epitaph
0 f Macon will be: ‘She blew out the
g ag ,
“Talk cheerfully. Is there not after
all some reason to do so? Look at
Macon as she was fifteen years ago and
If there is some cause for congratulation. and if
we did go a little too fast we
did inflate our valves a little too much,
that is no cause for despondency.
Macon is not dead; neither is she
sleeping; but she is simply slowly local re¬
covering from the reaeion after a
fever and the period of convalescence
is protracted by the enervating atmos¬
phere that pervades the whole localities, country. Ma¬
“Compared with other
con is holding ber place well. Were it
not for the foolish cries of the rayons
and the parrots there is reason to be¬
lieve that Macon would be a little
ahead. Now, then, is the time for a
brave heart and a bold frout.
“ ‘Laugh and the world laughs with you,
Weep and you weep alone.’
Is a piece of philosophy that do every well
good citizens of Macon would
to remember when speaking of this
city, whether he be among friends and
neighbors or among total strangers.
Kleetrte Ritters.
w ho have used Electric Bitters sing the same %
song of praise. A purer medicine does not
exist and it is guaranteed to do all that is
claimed. Electric Bitters will cure all dis
«!*• ESu=S3iHH f "^ oiherS?«
cure all Malarial fevers. For cure of Head
ache, Constipation and Indigestion guaranteed, try Elec
trie Bitters. Entire satisfaction
or mouey refundrd. Price 50 cents and $1.00
)ipr | >ott | e at i.ittie’s Drugstore and W. J.
Cooper & Co.’s.
Astronomers *y say that on Good Fri
da next, April 12. the heavenly bodies
wb j cb gravitate arouud the sun will be
in exactly the same position the day they occu
D i ed i n the firmament
d j ed on (he cross. It will be the
(i r8 t time such a thing has occurred
8 j nce (hat great dav, just^JSG‘2 years of ago. the
That was the thirty-third year
Christian era, which dates from the
birth of Jesus Christ. At 11:20 p.m.
on Apr ii li. New York time, the
mooa will pass before Yiginis (Spies)
and bide that constellation for over an
bo ur. Prof. Totten, of end of-the
world fame, says that the astronomers
are mistaken.
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Georgia used to lead . , the . union . m . its
annual showing ® of new railroad
age, , but of f , late rp years . !r „ there h h °. eec
nothing, practically, signs however, done in of that line,
There are a smart
revival. One Georgia company has
an order with Carnegie for
7,000 tons of steel rails, and another
has contracted for 12,000 tons. j
no? a~t m tv o a • •
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Statistics of the Immense Business Done
by Them,
Some Interesting statistics concern¬
ing the railroads of our great cities are
given in an article in the Chautauquan
by Robert I. Sloan, formerly chief en¬
gineer of the Metropolitan elevated
railroad, New York. He says:
“In Brooklyn the roads are built over
the streets, the same as in New York;
there are about miles of elevated
roads in Brooklyn and they carry 57,
000,000 passengers per year, and have
about 1,700 employes. The street rail¬
ways carry about 103,000,000 passen¬
gers.
“There are no elevated roads In Phil¬
adelphia. The surface street railways
carry about 170,000,000 of the people
every year.
“In Boston there are yet no elevated
roads. The 245 miles of single track
surface roads in the city and suburbs
are equipped electrically with over¬
head wires and trolleys.
“Over 125,000,000 passengers are car¬
ried by these lines. On account of the
congestion of travel in the business
districts, marTy plans have been pre¬
pared for better rapid transit, such as
tunnels, subways and elevated roads.
The latest proposition is the Meigs’ ele¬
vated system, on a single row of iron
columns.
“In Chicago street railways carry
about 207,000,000 persons yearly and the
elevated about 20,000,000 in ordinary
times. Chicago has two elevated roads
and a third in process of construction.
“The length of double-track elevated
roads in New York is about 36 miles;
they have in service 3*4 engines and
1,047 cars, and carry about 222,000,000
passengers during the year, with a
train mileage of 7,613,000; they con¬
sume over 180,000 tons of coal during
the year and employ about 5,200 men.
“The costs approximate 8350,000 a
mile for the cable system complete,
while it costs about 800,000 a mile,
double track, for a first-class overhead
conductor electric system in the city
streets. The average cost per mile for
the roads in the United States is about
as follows:
“ Horse railways equipped per mile.. ..$71,387
Electric, trolleys equipped permile. ..$46,697
Cable railways........................$350,000
Elevated railways.........$600,000 to $800,000.”
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Sheriff Callaway, a famous connois¬
seur in barbecues, has applied for the a
concession to run a barbecue at
Cotton States and International Expo¬
sition. The barbecue is a favorite in¬
stitution in Georgia, and the conces¬
sion will doubtless be granted. Sheriff
Callaway, who holds that office in
Wilkes county, is quite a character in
Georgia, and may be described physi¬
cally, as an enlarged edition of Joel
Chandler Harris. He maintains that
the true cuisine of the barbecue is a
lost art and he only lives to the keep chef it
from oblivion. The secrets of
a re to be willed to his son.
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The growing disposition of the south
be self supporting is thus alluded to
in the Philadelphia South Times returning of recent its
date: “The is to
ante-bellum custom of raising its own
corn and previsions. Southern farm
ers ! should raise at least 100,000,000
bushels of corn, and this would keep at
home the *100,000,000 sent t« the West
f°r f° od stuff, as was the last year. A
new order of tlaings ha.s been awakened
10 H 8 coming. The agricultural ad
vancemcnt is giving much concern to
the West, because the western market
i 8 slipping away.’
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It is easy enough to say that you
wish your enemy no evil, but wait un
til something happens feeling to him and see
if you can help glad. j
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A Miracle in Missouri.
CRIPPLED AND BENT FOR TEN YEARS
WITH RHEUMATISM.
Tlie Case Happened in Panama, Mo.,
anil Is tlie Wonder ot tbe State.
(From the Kansas City Times.)
For years one of the best known men in
Bate) and Vernon counties has been Mark
M. VVood(i>n, now postmaster Inspector at of Panama, Mines,
and brother of ex-State
O. C. Woodson, of this formerly city. The people of
Rich Hill, where he resided, and of *
his present home, remember well the bent
form, misshapen almost from the semblance
of man, which has painfully bowed its head
half to earth and labored snail-like across
the walks season after season, and when one
day last month it straightened to its full
height, threw away the heavy butt of eaue
which for years had been its only support
from total helplessness, and walked erect,
firmly, unhesitatingly about the two cities,
people looked and wondered. The story of
the remarkable case has become the marvel
of the two counties. Exactly as Mr. Wood
son told it to a Times reporter, it is here
published: the rheumatism started in
“ In ’84 my
right knee, ami after a lingering joints. illness 1 it
settled generally in my was
finally able to arise, but for the past 5 years
could only body walk with the aid of crutches, the
and my was bent kalf toward
ground. I went to the best treated dispensary six in
Kansas City, where I was for
weeks, and' without the slightest good. with I
then tried a strong galvanic battery, City
tlie same result. I then went to the
Hospital at St. Louis, where the best physi¬
cians treated me—(including Drs. Kale and
Mudd)—but without result,and Icame home,
weak, doubled with pain and despondent. called
“About this time my attention was
to the account <tf a remarkable cure by Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills for Pale Peojde of
locomotor ataxia, rheumatism and paral¬
ysis. I ordered some of the pills take as them, *11 the ex¬
periment. When I began to
rheumatism lmd developed into a phase of
paralysis ; my leg from the thigh down kept was
cold all the time and could not be
warm. In a short time I was able to attend
to my office duties, and I could enjoy a sound
aud restful night’s sleep, something I had
not known for ten years. To-day permanently am prac¬
tically, and I firmly believe,
curetfof my terrible and agonizing ailment.
No magician of the Far East ever wrought
the miracle with his wand that Dr. Wil¬
liams’ Pink Pills did for me.”
To verify the story beyond all question of
doubt Mr.’ Woodson made aflidavit to tho
•hove. to before thu
Subscribed and sworn me
3d day of March, 1894. Notary Public.
JoitN D. Moore, all the
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills contain
elements necessary to give new life and
richness to the blood and restore shattered
nerves. Thev are for sale by all druggists,
or may be had by mail from Dr. Williams’
Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y., for
50c. per box, or six boxes for $2.50.
J. L. JOHNSON,
Attorney - at - Law,
LEXINGTON, GA.
/"A FFICE upstairs over postofllcc. Will be
v " in Lexington Friday evening and Satur¬
on
day of each week.
BENJAMIN CILHAM,
-A.ttor:ne37- - at - Law,
LEXINGTON, CA.
Offlcee iu Court house with W. M. Howard.
PHIL. W. DAVIS
Lawyer,
LEXINGTON, GEORGIA.
Office upstairs in Court house.
M. J. NICHOLSON,
Practicing * Physician,
Obstetrician and Surgeon,
A. vriocH GA. Chronic and diseases itas of wo
men and children a specialty, taten
olfe^eandear doitafforhistreatmentTof°biood m Ha 3 T been < offere!i pc’ison. on^thouSml “ an
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A SDBEW smith vs. JANE smith, alias
jj *r^ C ia,WTo*S
a as Latj mer : n appearing from the re
tur,, G f the Sh«-iff in the above stated case that
the defendant,.Jane Smitn, alias Latimer, resides
out of said county, and an order having been ta
penor oourt to bU beid m and for sa.d countv of
Oglethorpe reborn on the third Monday ud^' in April, fs95,
10 “ 8W “ Sesse" o"c'
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t. g. Lesteh, clerk.