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Ilia c nn Qailij Kntrr[)dssr. |INKS) Wing & Smith, Proprietors, Term* of Sulerlptlon: v „„ * 8 00 iix Months $ I [hree Months “ u( InvariMy in advance. To city subscribers by the month, Seventy-live rente, served by carriers. 081. A Relic of Barbarism Remaining in Our Midst. Voodooism and Witchcraft Among the Negroes. Among the immediate blessings which 'it may surely be hoped will follow the emancipation of the Southern slaves, is the death of that barbarous superstition which still rules thousands of them, just as strongly as it does the wholly uncivil ized tribes of Africa. Alj over the South, says a lady contributor to Appleton's Journal, wherever the African has been settled, he has carried with him the belief in and practice of the necromancy known in Africa as obi, and throughout the Southern States as voodooism or ''trick ing.” In vain have religion and the white man waged war against this relic of bar barism ; it still nourishes, hydra headed, and ever and anon the newspapers raise an outcry as some fresh instance of its power and diabolical results are brought to light. The negro witches have little m com mon with the witch of our story-books ; they never ride broomsticks, or resort to the thousand and one petty arts of the Saxton or Celtic witch. Thiers is a far deeper and deadlier sorcery—a power which the negro lirmly believes can waste the marrow in the victim's bones, dry the I blood in his veins, and, supply his life | slowly and surely, bring him at last, a l skeleton, to his grave. . DIED OK 081. I Nor is this a fable; there are liun- V(1 reds of graves in the South on which f might he placed the epitaph: “ Died of obi." “Well, honey,” said a shrewd old negress to me once, when I had been exerting all the eloquence I possessed to convince her of the nothingness of this terrible bugaboo—“well, honey, dey lnout jes cs well kill you cs skear you ter detli.” Potent among their charms is that of the "evil eye,” which, fixed on a man by one of these witches, his power to thwart every undertaking in life. His axe will not cut; his hoe will not dig; his ploughshare will be broken against the rocks ; his cows will go dry ; plant he crops, they will not como up . and, whatever he doetli, it shall not pros per. Mention has been made, in a former article, of this terrible scourge of voodoo ism. and the modes in which it is prac ticed ; but no mere words can describe the hold which it has on the mind of the Southern negro, Once convince him that he is “ tricked,” and, unless ho be able to procure a “ trick-doctor,” whom he considers more skillful than the witch under whose spell he has fallen, no human power can save him—he believes that he must die, and die he will; a whole college of physicians could not save him. WITCHES IN TnK PILLOW. A man was sick nigh unto death ; iiis wife went to a witch-doctor, and received orders to open his pillow'. She did so, and within jt she found half a dozen or more tiny conglomerations of feathers, closely resembling the plumes on a hearse. These were burnt, and the man recovered. Another, very ill, w 7 as given an ointment with which to rub his stomach and chest, At the end of two days he vomited sev eral hairy worms, and was cured. I know colored people who would swear to the truth of these statements, and I have my self seen the little plumes ; indeed, learned men have taken Ike trouble to try to ac count for these last by natural causes. These dread of “tricking” is a grievous cross to the Southern house-keeper, since it sometimes interferes with her changing servants, as often they dare not take each other's places. I had myself a cook of whom I was anxious to get rid. The woman had no desire to leave, and told every other ser vant whom I tried to secure that she did not mean to go. I finally engaged one, and this dread of obi was nearly the cause of my losing her. I was forced to notify the two women and their husbands that I would not and could not keep the for mer, if I had either to do so or to cook for myself. Even then my new cook remained under protest; and red pepper and salt—potent countercharms for voodoo —were freely used in my kitchen for the next week or two. SAD CASE. It is painful—it is mournful—to see as we Southerners have often seen, strong men pining away under the influence of this superstition, taking medicine with a sorrowful smile, w'kispering perhaps in awestruck tones, the dreadful secret that they are “tricked,” and dying, at last, in spite of all that medical skill could do for them. TIIE OLD CRONES. Some of those old crones possess a mar velous knowledge of the nature aud prop erties of every plant indigenous to the South. They have an herb lor every ache or pain, and frequently prepare little bags filled with dried roots or leaves to be worn around the neck as a charm against dis ease or the “evil eye.” Some of the cures which they work are really wonderful. I was sick once—had taken a violent cold, aching in every limb, and was booked, I felt sure, for an attack ol pneumonia, or perhaps worse. My "mammy'’ had a noted herb doctor for a friend, and brought me a cup containing a dark, bitter decoction. What it was I have no idea, but I took it from mammy with the same faith with which, when a baby, I had taken catnip from the same hand. In ten minutes I was in a perspiration, aud free from fever; in five more I was fast asleep ; and the next morning waked as well as ever, and without a trace of cold; but I never could find out the name of my medicine. 1 have known a young athlete, a brawny Uerculea, whose strength was the glory of the plantation, who would shoulder a barrel of flour, and then, picking up a keg of nails, walk briskly up staira and deposit Ins burden with a grin, and who was as proud of his muscle as any wrestler of old ; 1 have seen him laid on his bed with pa ralysis creeping from one member to an other, until at last he only moved his eyes and tongue—dying by inches of a disease which the first phvslcians in the three counties around could do nothing to check or cure, and for which he and his fellow slaves had only the one word of explana tion —"tricked.” The doctors held & post mortem examination, and reported, “Sin gular internal discoloration, probably lead poisoning in whiskey,” when the poor fcl scarcely ever drank, and of numbers of sots in the neighborhood not one was af fected in like manner. Not far from the Virginia farm-house in which I was raised, just on the edge of my father's plantation, an old woman, renowned as a witch, owned a cabin aud a little bit of ground, She had a crippled daughter, whose lameness was the result of white swelling in infancy, but the negroes scouted such explanation of the matter. “White swelling,’-‘deed 1" said one of my mother's sable handmaidens to her mistress one day, with a toss of her tur biined head which spoke voiceless — " white swellin,” deed 1 Yowl white folks kin b'lieve dat 1 Her mummy let' summon her triek-mixcljers lftyin’ roun, en de chile trend on utn 1” A SIMPLE CURE. A cousin and myseir were one day sent to carry some wool to this woman to be spun—for she spun beautifully, aud my mother often employed her. Our body-guard consisted of two col ored girls, one an irrepressible mulalress, the other a quiet, demure little black girl, excessively timid. The house was a double log cabin, with two rooms. We were invited iuto the first while the old woman went into the inner chambers to get the yarn which she had already spun. Meantime the mulatto girl was in a saucy humor, and amused herself by some pert remarks about the “old witch,” which distressed her companion so much that I had to order her to hold her tongue. Going home, Emeline probably hurt her leg in climbing the rail fence around the little yard ; at all events, she soon be gan to complain of the limb, which grew inflamed, and swelled so rapidly that be fore we were half way home she could scarcely walk. Both girls were much alarmed, aud Emeline, weeping, hegged piteously to know if I thought she would be lame for life. I had been reading Scott's “Day of the Last Minstrel.” and, recollecting his ac count of the superstition that no enchant ment is proof against running water, I made Emmeline bathe her leg for about half an hour in a brauch which lay in our path. Imagination aud cold water com bined, served to relieve her, but she, no doubt, believes to this day that she was “tricked,” and considers me a marvel of learning, because I knew how to deal with her case. TItICKED JIM Shortly after the close of the war, a near relative of the writer was teaching in the mountains of Virginia. On the farm of the gentleman in whose family he resided were two laborers, Jim and Sam, the former a pleasant-featured mulatto, remarkably intelligent for a negro, and extremely popular among his acquaint ances ; the other an ugly, black negro, with a hang dog expression. Sum had with his own color the reputation of “voo dooism,” and many stories were told of his prowess in the “black art.” One day Jim was taken sick and it was whispered in the negro-cabins that Sam had " tricked” him. The doctor was called in, but could not classify his dis ease, although the poor fellow was visi bly drooping, and complained of pain in the back and limbs, accompanied by great langour, and the pulse was as feeble as an infant's. The doctor’s medicine did him no good ; indeed it is doubtful whether he took them ; and the case excited great interest in the white family, and was freely dis cussed among them. At this juncture M (my friend) begged permission to undertake the case, and see if he could not effect a cure by working on the man’s imagination. It was readily granted, and he managed that evening to waylay Jim in the woods about dusk, and anxiously inquired after his health. “Polly, marster,” was the reply. “Well, Jim, I have come to cure you.” “You, master?” with a sad, incredulous smile. “You can’t do dat; yowl white folks don’t ’lieve in my sort er sickness. Marster, I’se tricked.” “1 know you are, Jim,” gravely replied M , “and I do believe in that kind of sickness, though I know there are not many white folk* who do, and I can cure you.” AN ASTONISHED NEGRO. Jim looked up astonished, while M went on to detail his symptoms, which he had learned at second-hand from Jim’s wife—telling him how aud when he had been taken, and how Ham had tricked him —and drawing on recollections of Scott and Mather, finally succeeded in convinc ing his patient of his great skill and knowl edge as a trick-doctor. “ Now, you see, Jim." he said, “this thing goes by weeks. Three weeks ago Sam hid a bloody hand under your door step ; two weeks ago you were taken sick, and next week you will either be as well as ever, or die. Now, 1 know more about these matters than Sam docs, and I mean to cure you ; so come to my school-house to-night at twelve o’clock to see me, but don’t tell anybody anything about it, or the charm won’t work, and I can't do anything for yon.” Jim wns greatly impressed, and went away fully (relieving in liis volunteer physician, and promised secrecy the most inviolable. He was punctual to the appointment, and M— received him in pitch darkness, ! and went through a series of impromptu conjurations, which served to strengthen 1 the negro's faith no little. He gave Jim a chalk powder, to be placed in each shoe, and two huge, bloody bands—drawn in ! pokeberry juice on white paper—with di -1 rections to burry them under bis enemy’s ] door step, gave him orders to walk home backward, and finally dismissed him, fully I convinced that Sam s power over him was at an end, and that he was on the way to recovery. The next night he came to the rendez vous in good spirits, and reported himßelf much better; and, to make along story i short, at the end of a week he was really as well as ever; and M —— had the satis faction of having, in Ml human probability, \ saved the poor fellow's life. But iu spite of his injunctions to secrecy, J his fame as a trick-doctor went abroad m MACON, (tA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1872. the neighborhood, and he had numerous applications from the atllicted for relief, insomuch that he was forced to announce officially his retirement from the profes sion, and decline positively to practico on any one. SINGULAR MEDICINES. 1 knew an old woman who supported herself entirely by her practice as a trick doctor, and people came sometimes forty or fifty miles to consult her. The medicines which these people use— if medicines they may bo called —are as singular as the disense which they profess to cure. A piece of bread stained with the blood of a wart and buried in the ground, will eradicate the wart (!). Chills and fevers’eured (?) by blowing into the mouth of a live frog, or walking backward to a tree in a graveyard, and tying a string around the trunk. Darings from finger and toe-nails, hair from the human head, blood from the tip of a black cat's tail, snakes’ fangs, skins, and dried heads, wool, that has been charred by lightning, of which negroes have a superstitious dread, believing (many of them) that a tire kindled by it can only be extinguished with blood or milk, and the horrible looking insect kuown as the devil’s horse, play an important part in the science of obi. Education and religion are doing gal lant.warfare with this hideous form of superstition ; still it yearly numbers its victims by hundreds, aud it is probable that it will be long ere it entirely disap pears. Is there really anything in it ? Are these conjurers themselves deceived ? Do they, in fact, know of such subtle and deadly poisons, or is it all imagination, proving only the power of mind over matter. Who shall solve the mystery for us ? - A Beautiful Experiment.—The fol lovviug|beuutiful experiment may bo easily performed by a lady, to the great aston ishment of a circle at her tea party : Take two or three leaves of red cabbage, cut them into small bits, put them into a basin and pour a pint of boiling water on t|iem; let it stand an hour, then pour it ofT into a decanter. It will he a fine blue color. Then take four wine glasses ; into one put six drops of stroug vinegar ; into another six drops of solution of soda; iuto the third a strong solution of alum, and let the fourth remain empty. The glasses may be prepared some time before, and the few drops of colorless liquid that have been placed in them will not he noticed. Fill up the glasses from the decanter, aud the liquid poured into the glass containing the acid will become a beautiful red . the glass containing the soda will become a fine green ; that poured into the empty one will remain unchanged. By adding a little vinegar to the green it will immedi ately change to a red, and on adding a little solution of soda to the red it will as sume a fine green, thus showing the action of acids and alkalies on vegetable blues. A Davenport man, with three marriage able daughters, has posted the following notice over his bell-pull; Wood, s<> a cold; coal 30 cents per bushel; gas dear and bad. Parties staying after 9 o'clock will please settle quarterly. N. 11. A re duction made after popping, and the full amount added to the bridal douceur." Strain is a ridiculous word. When it stands for a song it means sound. When it stands for a strain it means unsound. It may have a sound sense, but it has a deal of nonsense about it too. Theodore Hook observed, in the first days of Warren’s blacking, that one of the emissaries of that manufacturer had written on a wall, “ Try Warren’s H but had been frightened from his work and fled. “ Tho’rest is lacking,” said the wit. Tom Moore said to Peel, on looking at an Irish orator : “ You can see the very quiver of his lips.” “Yes” said Peel, “and the arrow coming out of it.” Moore was telling this to one his countrymen who said : “ He meant arrah coming out of it.” A yankee having told an Englisman that he shot, on one particular occasion, nine hundred and ninety-nine snipes, his interlocutor asked him why he did’nt make it a thousand at once. “ No said he, not likely I’m going to tell a lie for a single snipe.” Whereupon, the Englishman, rather riled, and determined not to be outdone, began to tell a long story of a man hav ing swam from Liverpool to Hoston. "Did you see him?” asked the yankee. “ Why of course I did. I was coming across and our vessel passed him a mile out of lioston babor.” “ Well, I’m glad you saw him, stranger, cause you're a witness that I did it. That was me. FOR SALE. A FOUR room dwelling and vacant lot, also, splendid well of water hi the yard ; fronting on Spring and Rose Streets, contain ing one quarter of an acre. For sale cheap. Apply to GEORGE SCHMIDT, nov. 25—lm. corner Third and PI um Streets. Change of Schedule. MACON AND WESTERN K. R. CO., I Macon, Ga., October 31, 1873. f ON and after Suoday November 3d, the fol lowing schedule for Passenger Trains, will be observed on this road: DAY PASSENGER. Leave Macon 8:15 A. M. Arrive at Macon 3:05 a. m. Leave Atlanta 8:30 A. M. Arrive at Atlanta 2:40 p. M. NIGHT PASSENGER AND FREIGHT. Leave Macon 8:50 p. m. Arrive at Macon 3:20 a. m. Leave Atlanta 8:00 r. M. Ai rive at Atlanta 4:55 A. M. Making close connections at Macon with Central Railroad for Savannah and Augusta, and with Southwestern Railroad for points in Southwest Georgia. At Atlanta with Western and Atlantic Railway for points West. A. J. WHITE, nov3tf ' Superintendent. Stockholder's Meeting. Oppice Macon and Westkrx R. K. Cos., I Macon, Ga., Nov. 30. 1872. f The annual meeting of Stockholders of the Macon and Western Railroad Company, for the election of President and Directors to serve for the ensuing year, and any other business that may be brought before them will be held at the office of the Company In thia city on Tuesday the 7th day of January next al 10 o’clock A. M. MILO 8. FREEMAN, novSO-td Secretary and Treasurer. rs™^ w^y-Jr^ This unrivalled Medicine Is warranted not to contain a single particle of Mkhcukv, or any injurious mineral substance, blit is IMKIiI.Y VEUETAIIIiII, For FORTY YEARS it has proved its great value in all diseases of the I.ivku, Bowels and Kionevs. Thousands of the good and great in all parts of the country vouch for its wonder ful and peculiar power in purifying tlie Blood, stimulating tlie torpid Liver and Bowm.s, and imparting new Life and Vigor to the whole sys tem. SIMMON’S LIVER REG U LATOK knowledged to have no equal ns a I.lt lilt VllilMflYli. It contains four medical elements, never uni ted in the same happy proportion in any other preparation, viz: a gentle Cathartic, a wonder ful Tonic, an unexceptionable Alterative and a certain Corrective of all impurities of the body. Such signal succcsa has attended its use, that it is now regarded aa tho Ureal l’nliiliiisr Npecilie for Liver Complaint and tlie painful offspring thereof, to wit: DYSPEPSIA, CONSTIPA TION, Jaundlee-Billlouaattacks, SICK HEAD ACHE, Colic, Depression of Spirits SOI’It STOMACH, Heart Buri Ac., Ac. Regulate tho Liver and prevent €llll.l-H A!l FKVEK. SIMMONS’ LIVER REGULATOR Is manufactured by J. 11. /EIIJ.I A CO., MACON, UA., und PHILADELPHIA. Price per package; sent by mail, postage paid, *l .25. Prepared ready for use in bottles, fl. 50. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. jgEf Beware oi all Counterfeits and Imitations. 112-528 DAVIS SMITH, (Successor to the late Arm of Smith, Wcstcott. iV: Cos., and of Smith, McGlaslmn k. Cos.) MANUFACTURER AND DEAI-EK IN SADDLES, HARNESS, BRIDLES, SADDLERY AND HARNESS lIAUDWAKE, Carriage Materials, Leather of all kinds, hoe Findings, Children’s Carriages, RUBBER, OIN BANDS, ETC., Together with every article usually kept in a saddlery house, 103 <lll ERR V ST., OTA CO*, -A 156-182 SHOOTING MATCH. ANY and all persons wishing to engage in this with their good guns, will confer with No. 8, Cotton Avenue, for thetlOcolored picture. Tickets (20) $1 each. dce.V4t. EPIZOOTY! Epizooty!! Epizooty!! Tie Eaile Flooring Mills, HAVING prepared a cooling and healthful food for the HORSE MALADY, are now offering it in any quantities. Also an admirable article of COW FOOD, Al*o F1.A11% BOLTED .TIEAE, Also all (trade* of FLOIill, All of which can be obtained by leaving or ders at W. A. Hub's, Seymour,Tinsley As Cos., D. Good & Sons’, Small, Gamble iV Deck’s, Lawton & Bates’ or attlie Eagle Mills. n0302w W. J. LAWTON * CO. me. K. F. GKIGGB. OFFICE over M. R. Rogers & Co’s., Con fectionary store. Residence, Plum street, opposite George 8. Obear's. oct 2 lm, BYIVOTON HOTEL, GRIFFIN, GA. rpiiiS HOTEL ranks second to none in X Georgia, for GOOD COMFORTABLE ROOMS, WELL SUPPLIED TABLES, AND CHEAPNESS OF KATE. A* a resort for the residence of the present hot term, it is unequalled, the nights being remarkable cool and pleasant. The best W ater ia Georgia. 3. W. BTINGTON, 110-lflO Proprietor MERCHANTS AM) PLANTERS WILL FIND IT TO THEIR AD VANTAGE TO CALL ON US BEFORE MAKING THEIR RILLS, WE HAVE IN STORF, 100.000 LBS. BACON CLEAR R. SIDES. 25.000 LBS. BACON SHOUL DERS. 10.000 LBS. BELLIES. 50.000L85. FLOUR, till gnuluß. 500 ROLLS 2} BAGGING. 10.000 LBS. ARROW TIES. 10 BALES TWINE. JOHNSON & SMITH. JOHNSON & SMITH, Have, and are at very low figures : 100 BOXES TOBACCO,- all grades. 100 BBLS. WHISKIES. 150 BBLS. SUGAR. 50 BBLS. MOLASSES. 100 BALES HA V. 1.000 BUSHELS CORN, Together with a full stock of till all goods in our line of business, i IS i r Building; Lot For Sale. OITUATED near Tntnitll Square, within a O fewatepa of Mercer University. Address K. C., Box K., 98tf Macon, Ga. FOR SALE. A COMPLETE OUTFIT OF HOUSEHOLD FUKNITTItE. A FAMILY designing to break up house keeping on the lirst of October, now offer a complete outfit of furniture for five or six rooms, together with all necessary kitchen utensels, for sale at half original cost. It con sists of Mohair Parlor Chairs, Mahogany and Black Walnut Bedsteads, Bureaus, Dining Ta ble, Dining, Rocking and common chairs, Car pets, Dinner and Tea Setts, and in short, almost every article demanded in a house of live or six rooms. The furniture lias not been used over one or two years, is in perfect repair, almost as good as new, coat #I,OOO and will now tie sold for #SOO cash. Address Box 402, Macon, orupply at this THIS OFFICE. Hcpldtf it. i.owEvriiAi/ft It A It & LAGER IIEEII SALOON, (MAASJBT’B OLD WAND.) Opposite Medical College, Mulberry St. fTMlift Silicon is supplied with the best Wines. 1 Liquors ami Oigais in the market, sivtcl sparkling Lager Jitter of superior quality. Free lunch every <luy from 10 to 12 o’clock and extra lunches served up at any hour in the day or night. Swiss Cheese, Goose, Duck, Ham, Salads and anything that may be desired for lunch. nov24-tf DR. P. H. WRIGHT I >ESPKCTKL'I.LY fender hi professional I k service, to the citizens of Macon and vi cinity, Office at Drug Store No. If Brown House Block. Residence at lb- v . Samuel Boy kin’s, Georgia avenue. Calls left at either place will receive prompt, aUenfion. oelOtf MISS M. A. DANIEL WOL’LD respectfully inform the Ladies of Macon and vicinity tint, i-hc has taken rooms at Vo. IO Cotton Avenue fup stairs), where she, i- prepared to do Duemh Making In the lat/M and ifumt J'unhi<inubli. and war rants to give satisfaction. ocWI-2w FOR RENT- AtiA IT,It MONTH by I lie o-nrln advance. Two rooniH, l><•-1 \<>' ality in the city for Dcntiflt or Millinery, Im.-miCHB. Apply at thih oflico, or No. S Cotton Avenue, ocusur. ON CONSIGNMENT —BY— J, Holmes & Cos., No. Xlf Third SlriTt, 100 m,Jti IESNJ ''' SKI appleb ’ 50 bids. POTATOES. Also one ear load of choice, select BUST I*HOOF SEED OATS, Superior to anything of the kind ever before offered in this market. Give us a call. novtJUtf FOR THE FALL AND WINTER TRADE ■+- LAWTON A HATE, Door to I.nwloii A Willingham.) prepared to furnish tlie trade with UKOl'liltlllN, I’KOVINIOXS, I'l. VYTATIOY MI PIML.IEB, KAG UIG, TIEN, ETC., on as reasonable terms as any house In Georgia. We will keep constantly on hand, BACON; LARD, CORN, OATS, HAY, SUGAR, COFFEE, BAGGING and TIES, und a general assort ment of stieli goods ns are kept In u first class Grocery House. Give us n call. We are running the EAlfiVii: I'l OllltlMi ItHI.I.N, and dlroct-speeiirl attention to onr “CHOICE,” “EXTRA," "FAMILY" Flours. They will Be found exactly adapted to tlie trade, and we guarantee every barrel to give satisfaction. Our prices are as low as those of the same grades can be bought in the South. CORN MEAL, bolted und unbolted, always on hand, of our own make and of tlie Dost quality. 120-188 BANDY & CO. TIN AND SHEET IRON ROOFING, ffntteriflfc Plumbing anti Earning, n jlpll | Tin AND GALVANIZED IRON CORNICES nmi I v Executed at short notice and satisfaction \ i| \ * 1 guaranteed. 'v j) y \|| 1 No. 10 Third Street, .llacon, Ga, I | Particular attention given to Guttering put up 1 1 with \ * WOODRUFF’S V. IMTEYf HATH I’ASTiiNINGS. EPEOVED ftlT (HUAI ?S< ! r nIITN<; TVEW. SUPERSEDES ILL OTH H ffORSE POWER IT IS NO HUMBUG!! npilE Bcttlliu; of the; Gin Mouse floor Ims no died on the Geuri ; King PMt of Iron utul all L the work bolted to iron. IT LS MADE TO LAST, AND TO RUN TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT. LIGHTER THAN ANY OTHER ROWER IN USE. Call and bpc for yoim. If. I Guild :t Portable Jlorse Power that cluillCD'all other MAKES, but it will not do the work with the same Draft that my PATENT GIN GEAR will. All kinds of Machinery made and repaired sit IKO> WOKItN, 108-180 Near Brown House, Macon Georgia. BBJDWFST GALLERY! Wo. 8 Cotton Avenue, Is the place where all the differ ent styles of pictures are made at greatly reduced prices. __ W. &E. P. TAYLOR Cor. Cotton Avenue an<l Cherry Street, DEALERS IN Mil, CARPETINGS, IKS, OIL CLOTHS, WINDOW SHADES, etc. Metaiic Burial Cases & Caskets, Fine and Plain Wood Coffins and Caskets. Tytf Order* by Telegraph promptly attended to. jAjr.a a. mount. Isaac habdeman. , ■ll.Ol IT A HARDEMAUf, ATTORNEYS3AT SLAW, MACON, GEORGIA. OFFICE, at entrance Ralston Hall, Cherry street. 4H-BWO Barber Shop For Rent. rpilE Basement room, formerly occupied by 1. Mike Napier, In Brown’s Hotel building la for rent 'fill# Is one of the host stand# for a Barber Shop in the city. Apply to eep2stf BRAWN'S HOTEL. Volume I.—Number 214 I‘NMAN LINE ROYAL M4IE STEAMSHIPS. rpHE Liverpool, New York and Philadelphia X Steamship Company dispatch two steam er per week. Tke quickest time ever made across the Atlantic. Every comfort and con venience. For further information apply to eepS3-tf H. C. STEVENSON, Agent.