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VOL. 11l The Quitman Reporter In PL’iil.lnil r:i3 every Thursday hy *r. /V. Pi'opi'iotol' TERMS: One Year s'i 00 Six Months * 00 Three Mouths ’0 All subscriptions must he psiil hivnrmbly in •ulUfhU’C 110 discrimination in favor of tinvliodv. the paper will be stopped in all instances at the expiration .he Suite paid for, unless subscriptions ayo previously renewed. RATES OE ADVEUTISRIG. Advertisements inserted at the rate ot *I.OO per square -one inch -for first inser tion. nud 75 conts for each snbseipicnt in sertion. ~ , , ... All advertisements should he marked for h specified time, otherwise they will be charged under the rule of so much tor the lirst insertion, and so much for each subse quent insertion. Marriages, Obimaries and rrilmtes nt Re ft,>wct will he charged same rates as ordinary advertisements. IC//E.V BILLS Ml E DUE All hills for advertising in this paper are due on the first appearance of the advertise ment, except when otherwise arranged by contract, ami will be presented when the money is needed. Professional. S. T. KINUSIJEUY, Attorney at Law, QUIT MAX, - - GEORGIA. in new Brick Wureliouse. Bnsinssa before the U. b. Patent Office Mtaudsd t/>, I. A. Allbritton, Attorney at Law, QUITMAiV, - - - - A JJO~OFFICE IX COURT HOUSE. 03-5. w. a. s. Humphreys, Attorney at Law, QUITMAN, GEORGIA erOFFK!E in the Court ’House -fis. HADDOCK & KAIFOitD, Attorneys at Law, qititmmviv, geo. Will give prompt attention to all business entrusted to their care. Jtl-()ffiee over Knytou’s store. Dr. E. A. J E L K S, Practicing Physician. QUITMAN GV. Office : Rriek building adjoining store of Messrs, liriggs, Jelks A Cos., Screven street. 0" R. H. Robinson, Physician ami Surgeon Having opened an office opposite the Mclntosh House, in the building formerly occupied by Mrs. Black. oilers ins services to any who may call. Office hours from y to 12 o'clock ’a. m., and from 2 to 4 r. m. Quitman, Ga., Felt. 2, 1876. 3m Dr. J. S. N. Snow, DENTIST. OFFICE—Front room up stairs over Kiiy ton's Store. Gas administered for painless ly extracting teeth. r-frCliargos to suit the times. jan 1!), ly Carriage, Wagon and Ihiggy Manufactory. The firm of Knight and Scarborough lias been dissolved bv mutual consent. The liabilities will be settled by the undersigned, who will continue the wheelright, carriage liiul wagon manufacture as before. Thank ful for past favors he still solicits public pa tronage. Work cheaper than over, and war ranted. Try mo and be convinced. ■J. H. KNIGHT. Xovemhei'3o, 1673. flic <QMtHit ilcpilyllT. The Fighting Editor. AN ARKANSAS M'KCIMEJf ISUICK OP THE OOOI) OLD DAYS. Col. Horace Fcathei stock was scarcely twenty-one when lie entered the office of the Eagleville TriAVoek ly Tomahawk and Mirror, and had been there scarcely three weeks when the summary and scientific manner in which he ejected a powerful back woodsman, who had ventured to re monstrate against a savage personal reference to himself, determined the chief to appoint Feutherstock to the arduous and responsible position of lighting editor: a post which he held for seven years with honor to himself and credit to his paper. He was a good shot, and similar in his sudden ness to lightning. It is said that du ring his stay in the Tomahawk office he killed nineteen men. In fact, the number of those who bltiendered in their dealings with him was so great that it became a current humorous saying in the region that Feather stock kept a graveyard of his own. There lived in a neighboring coun ty a gigantic and bloodthirsty ruffian, who had often heard of the renowned, lighting editor of the Tomahawk, and having held his own, and sometimes mole, with everybody he had ever met, he resolved to go to Eagleville and clean out the colonel. When he appeared in the Tomahawk office lie might, but for his great size and fe- j roeious aspect, have been mistaken for the drummer of a firearms estab lishment All liis pockets were full of assorted weapons, and his belt looked like a fence withpistol pickets. He stalked in with an air of brutal insolence, and said to the colonel: “Are you the Tomahawk’s fighting] editor?” The colonel modestly allowed that lie was. “I understand you keep a select burving-ground of your own.” “Yes,” said the colonel, “I must ad mit that I do find it necessary to keep a private cemetery.” The ruffian reached down in his right-hand outside coat pocket, and i lifted an immense old-fashioned re volver that bore a striking reeem ' bianco to a young Gatling gun. He swaggered up to the colonel, and banged the muzzle of the pistol down I so savagely that it made a deep dent ;in the deck, and the words that ac- ; companied the action were: “Well, I’ve come to be buried in that graveyard 1” For the tirst (and last) time in his life the colonel weakened. It seemed to him that life lmd never seemed so sweet as just at that moment —a sen timent fostered, doubtless, by the knowledge that he was standing face to face with a man who was fully de- I termined to kill him. But if for an I instant his courage wavered, bis su- I avity never forsook him, and he look- : ed np with a smile: “I am right sorry, my friend, that I can’t accommodate you, but my graveyard is full. There really isn’t room for another one.” “I was afraid you couldn’t find room in it for me,” said the stranger, and he wrapped his words in a sneer i that made the colonel think that life I wasn’t worth a cent. If the stranger : had answered the colonel with plens j ant words, he might have retired on a great victory, but that sneer chang ed the whole programme. The colo nel reached under his desk to the pis tol-shelf, and brought out a weapon that looked like the elder brother of j the stranger’s shooting iron. The expression of his face was changed, j but he went on talking in the same I cheerful, measured way, just as though without interruption he was ! adding to his previous remark: | “But though that one is closed, ] full. I have just opened anew ceme- I tery, and my sexton has dug a sara j pie grave that I should think (here ■ lie ran his eyes deliberately along the j stangor from his feet, to bis eyes, and | fixed them there) would fit you.” The stranger’s grip on himself was ; gone. The change had been too sud- I den for him. Of all the crowd that the altercration had drawn into the room, the colonel was the first to re alize the change, and most accurate in his estimate of its extent. He pro ceeded pleasantly and deliberately: “Now, I may have conveyed to you when you first came in that this is not one of my regular slaughtering days, hut at the same time if you in sist—” The colonel tugged at the hammer of his pistol, but the lock was rusty. Probably that rust saved the stran ger’s life; he didn’t insist, but turned and started off; and before the colo nel could get his pistol to a full cock the stranger was ou the other side of the door, walking away, sad and thoughtful. The dearest object to a man should be his wife; but it is not unfrequently her clothes. QUITMAN, GA., THURSDAY, MAY 11, IS7IL Ti Men's Strength. [From tlm Rirlitnond Dispatch. | I A potent argument in his favor, adduced by Mr. Tilden’s friends, is the almost positive certainty that lie I could get the large electoral vote of the State ol New York. Time and again have they offered this reason ] for his nomination at St. bonis. Sue I how tempting is the bait. The South ern States, ommitting South Carolina ami including West Virginia, Mary land and Delaware, cast BID votes. California, Connecticut and Oregon east 15. That makes 145. Only 185 votes are necessary to an election. So that 10 more votes will elect the Pres ident. These to New York and Now- Jersey would almost surely give to Tilden, New Y’ork having 35 and Now Jersey 0. It will be seen that Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and all the rest of the doubtful States, and also the States decidedly Republican, are omit ted from this calculation, which thus presents the case in the most favora ble light for Tilden. It is assumed in I making this calculation that the I Southern States will vote fur any candidate whose election would re lieve them from Radicalism, carpet- j bagism, and sealawagism, and this as sumption is not all unreasonable. It is hardly too much to take it for granted that every one of the South ern States, except South Carolina, would cast its vote for Tilden and hard money, or for Allen and green backs, or for Hancock, or Thurman, 1 or Hendricks, or any other Democrat. Um overruling consideration with us is to get rid of a political incunibns. So that there seems to lie lacking no element of probability in the calcula- tion made by the. friends of Mr. Til den. Ho can carry New York New Jersey, Connecticut, California and Oregon, because he is a hard money man and a reformer. He can secure 130 electoral votes in the South with out reference to his opinions on finan cial questions. This would elect him. Why should he not be nominated? These considerat ot s will tell with powerful effect upon the delegates to St. Louis. We have ourselves, not been particularly anxious to see Til den nominated. On the contrary, we have been rather inclined to think that he ought not to be so favored by the party. But we cannot shut our eyes either to the plausible view of the ease which his friends take or to the desirableness of having him for President rather than the best of the Republican aspirants. But Tilden’s strong point may prove to be his weak one. The very facts which we have recited, and which tell so strongly in his favor, may have the effect of uniting his ri vals in the Democratic party as against him. Why should New York vote for him and not for Bayard or Thurman? Either of them is as de cided a hard-money man as Tilden, and either is as pure in life and spot less in reputation. No good reason c n be given: an l the other States, which in 18(18 and 1873 gave up to New York and nominated her sons for President, will think twice before yielding a third time without a strug gle. Centennial Vampires A Warning to the Innocent who will Visit Philadelphia. Our friends from the enterior, com-: ing up next month to the Oentenni- I al, must expect to find many saliant! I points in the exhibition of which no! j hint has been given them in the pro j gramme, or even in newspaper reports Where the prey is, there will the vultures be gathered together; and I even at this early date, Philadelphia i is the central point toward which not | only pick-pockets and snffrance of j the baser sort are bending their steps, j but the higher class of confidence men and women, that htippy-ga-lnclcy, audacious, intelligent gang.who hover ou the confidence of society, like rob ber-crabs, living on their wits and the Stupidity of other people. The World’s Exhibitions in other countries have always attracted professional free booters, and they ‘appear- to be especially sanguine of success in this country, where money is supposed to j be plenty and innocence unsuspicious. Strange women in foreign attire al ready puzzle the eyes of sober Qua kers; the London detectives, who ar rived last week, declare that they meet as many faces familiar to their Rogues’ Gallery in Chestnut street, as they would in the Strand. The neighborhood of the Centennial build ings is set with every inducement to vice; private houses are besieged by new varieties of shameless beggars. As the crowd|increases,the temptation and chances of plunder will attract more of these outlaws. We warn our country friends that they will need to sharpen their wits for other purposes than that of sight-seeing. —New York- Tribune. Stopping Investigation- The Senate, the Administration, and the Ring courts at Washington have all combined to defeat further investigation into the frauds and cor ruption which have thus far astoun ded the country. The Republican lenders perceive that if the exposures continue to he made as they have be gun, defeat at the Presidential elec tion is certain. They know how ] much is yet concealed, and they dread ' tlfc consequences that must follow new proofs of an organized system of robbery and rascality, such as has already been found in almost every branch of the public ser vice. It would bo impolitic, and, in the present temper of the public milul, jierhaps dangerous to oppose investi gation openly, as that, would be nearly , equal to a confession of guilt. Hence the leaders have proceeded insidious ly'to effect their object and to tie the blends of the people’s representatives by artful expedients. They have : caucused and sought to do by indirect means what they would not dare to at tain pt directly. After the flight of Marsh to Can aim, it became evident that, unless w|tne.sseH were properly protected, investigation would he checked, and, hr fact, be made dependent upon voluntary testimony. A bill was therefore passed by the House to ex tend immunity for the purpose of obtaining evidence of frauds on the Government, and exposing the cor rupt complicity of officials. The Senate has stilled that Dill and thus given its protections to Rings and rob bers. Under the power of tho House to call for persons and papers, no ques tion has been heretofore raised above producing originals from the depart mental files in aid of investigation. In many cases they are imlispcnstWle for that &j.ect, since copies wonk* furnish one cine to a variety of frauds that have been perpetrated. Recent experience has shown that many of tl(fl| large claims passed through the Treas ury and the Pension Office were sup ported by forged papers. The Pres ident has now issued an order fofbid ding originals to he delivered to the House. This is his method of ing inquiry and shedding forgers and conspirators from detection and punishment. The House of Representatives ordered Hat.i.ktt Kii.bourn, one of the most notorious of the Ring job bers at Washington, into custody for refusing to answer questions which would expose the real estate pool in and out of Congress; and now the Ring court has released him, in defi ance of the authority of the House to restrain a witness in con tempt. Thus the Senate, the Administra tion, and the Ring courts conspire to gether to conceal the villainies of Grantism, and to prevent the House of Representatives from uncovering the iniquities which are hidden in the books and records of the public de partments. It remains to be seen liow far the House will submit to these assaults. The contest is be tween the people seeking honest government and an account of their money derived from grinding tax ation, and a corrupt Administration and its tools and confederates, striv ing to throttle inquiry and to hold on to their plunder. — X. Y. Sun. Congressional Humor. Hon. Samuel S. Cox publishes in ‘ Why Wo Laugh the following excel lent specimen of Congressional hu mor, of a much better flavor than is | common now-a-days: Mr. Buchanan : was defending himself against the.] charge of disloyalty during the war ] of 1813. To prove his loyalty, he j stated that be entered a company of' volunteers at the time of the battle of North Point, and marched to Balti more. True, he said, ho was not in any engagement, as the British liad retreated before he got there. Mr. Clay—you marched to Balti more, though? Mr. Buchanan —Yes sir. Mr. Clay—Armed and equipped? Air. Buchanan—Yes armed and equipped. Mr. Clay—But the British had re treated when you got thorc? Mr. Buchanan—Acs. YLr. Clay—Will you bo good enough then to inform us whether the British retreated in consequence of your valiantly marching to tho re lief of Baltimore, or whether you marched to the relief of Baltimore in consequence of the British having al ready retreated? “Why did Herod kill the boy babies of the Hebrews and not the girls ?” asks a Sunday School teacher. “Please sir; wasn’t it because lie objected to the Hebrews and not the Sho ‘ brews ? W hut Extravagance Leads To. If the habit, now so prehilent, of living up to one’s income, and even beyond it, was productive of no more harm than to cramp the parties guilty I of such folly, and prevent all material progress it would he bad enough. But that is the least part of the evil. Then comes the temptation to specu late, and resort to disreputable means to procure money, which sooner or later ends in bankruptcy, both of character nud estate. There is still another direful conse quence also growing out of this uni versal extravagance, which acts most injuriously upon the morals and hap piness of society. \\ e mean its effect m diminishing the number of mar riages. Young men who spend all they make upon themselves, cannot afford to marry fashionable girls equally as extravagant, but who are portionless. The latter, likewise, too ] often throw away their chances of happiness by rejecting the suits of i worthy young gentlemen, simply be-' cause they are too poor to gratify all their whims and fancies. Hence the [ number of those of both sexes who are now wasting the fllower of their existence in cheerless celibacy. The following remarks of the Al bany Argus are appropriate, and in sympathy with what we have written: “The country never possessed so many beautiful marriageable young women as it does at the present time. And why do we not have more mar riages? Me answer because mar riage for love is the exception not the rule. The voting people of this age have gone fashion and money mad. If the dandy bank clerk who pays oue half his income for board and the \ other for clothes cannot improve his condition he will not marry. The shop girl who earns good wages and i cannot be distinguished by her dress from the banker’s daughter certainly ..will not plunge into matrimony unless ; she can better her condition in life. If a man is fortunate enough to pos sess money, it matters not how old or ugly he may be, hundreds of intelli gent, handsome young women can be found only too willing to become his wife. Love is an after consideration. 1 They marry to be supported and ! dj* ssed extravagantly. How often do wo hear the remark, “Better to be an old man’s darling than a young ' man’s slave.” Alas! too many of ! them are not satisfied to be darlings. They will persist in loving other men after they are married. It cannot be denied that a great number of the unmarried men are ad venturers looking for wives who can keep them without working for a liv- j ing. The peace and contenment of a ' happy home is not taken into cotisid eration. They are willing to suffer a hell upon earth if they can bo kept in j idleness. If our young people do j not abandon this extravagance of ] dress and greed for money our coun try will he tilled with old bachelors | and old maids. AYe must have more genuine courtships and marriages to ; have prosperity and happiness in this j world. Too many marry for money ] only to he disappointed and unhappy j the rest of their lives.” Does it Pay to he Boss. A young contractor in one of the j large Springfield manufactories, in I company with h;s wife, a sad looking ! little woman in threadbare clothing, ] entered one of the town meat mar kets one recent Saturday evening, and, after gazing around for a mo ment, the man ordered a soup bone for Sunday. While it was being wrapped up, a spruce looking young man, with a massive gold watch chain, attired in a suit cut in the latest fash ion and SOO overcoat, entered, and pompously ordered four pounds of sirloin steak at twenty-fivo cents per pound. The little woman looked wistfully at the tender, juicy steak as it was being cut oil, and then at the bone which was to furnish her dinner the next day, and turning to her hus band, said: “George, why can’t we have as good meat as that man; he works un der you at tho shop ?” “1 know it, Jenny,” replied the] contractor,, drawing himselt up to his full height; “but lie's only a poor bench workman and I’m boss, and its worth something to boss, you know.” ‘•Y_ c -s,” said tho wife with a sigh, j which said plainly that she would j much rather he a poor workman’s j wife and eat sirloin steak than the wife of a “boss” and live ou soup. When Powhatan smoked his pipe while Pocahontas pleaded for the original John Smith there stands—a chimney. All that remains to mark the grandeur of that event is a huge stone chimney, by the side of which a bleached child of the first family of i Africa has built a cabin. Tho shades of the mighty dead di n’t seem jto loaf about the place worth a cent. (Yntciminl Hotel ( barges. ! | Pliiliul. lgUiii Letter to the Chicago Trib une. ] 1 have taken the pains to visit more than fifty hoarding-houses and ho ' tels wiihin ton blocks of the Pres.l office, and the result of my search is ! that ia such houses as advertise this | way, “Nicely furnished rooms, heat, gas and bath, at moderate rates," not a room can be had after May I for less than sl3 or sls per week. If you want a room now the owner makes the condition that after that, date you will submit to tho “raise” ;or vacate. You enn gut them for the present for $5 per week. People who mom here can get table board for $5, sti, and $lO per week. At four of the second rate hotels new paper has been put on the walls, a brass knoeker on the door, and English porter engaged, end prices are placarded thus: On lin’d att. r May 1 boarders w ill have to pay 812 per week, or vacate their rooml. J . S. TANARUS., Flop. A clean raise of $5 per week on i “grub,” bought after the regular cus tomers at market are served. Five and six dollars a day will be the price at all first-class hotels. At those ad vertised as first-class near tho grounds the Globe, for instance— board will be straight $5. And it would be dear at seventy-five cents, ' considering the risk. It is actually criminal to build such a house for people to lodge in—nothing but a vast pile of dry pine kindling wood, plastered on the outside. Putty, paint and plaster hide all defecets. During the recent hard rains half the daub on the outside was washed off’, and the porch is anything but inviting. Perhaps Forney’s ! Vets will deny this. Perhaps the Press will deny that a few months since it endeavor ed to get actual figures from all ho tel-keepers as to charges, and failed— meaning, of course, that these, gen tlemen would charge whatever they saw lit. Why not tell tho truth? Charges will he made just as-great as the people will submit to and stay. It is said that owing to tho stinginess of the council, tho water supply is likely to fail this suinmor, especially if a drought prevails. The water supply if meagre far too meagre for a city like this, what will it be when hundreds of thousands arc added to this population? And, still Worse, a professor of something says that epi demics almost always follow throat and lung diseases, such as are now 'prevailing. Halt tho city is on tho cough, and the other half is swathed in red flannel. Between the charges, the want of water and an epidemic of some sort, the visitors will have a tough time of it. Romance of n Widow’s Life. Among the death notices printed in the New York papers last week was that of a middle-aged Englishman ■who had only resided in this country about six months. His history is linked lo that of a charming widow, well known in society, whose grief at his loss is well-nigh insupportable, or. would, be lmt fur one circumstance. About eighteen months ago the wid ow, who by the way was the wife of a deceased wholesale grocery merchant, made a tour of Enrolls in company with the family of an Eastern rail road king. Her own fortune consist ed of the income from her husband’s estate, which she accepted in lieu of dower, coupled with the condition that the estate should go direct to an only sou- a lad about twelve years old in case she married a second time. On this European trip she met the English gentleman mentioned. It is the old, old storv. He wooed audi won her, but she stipulated that they must reside after marriage in Ameri-t ca. He consented, sold out his busi ness in England, and removed to America last November. It was ar ranged the marriage should take j place the next month, but in Janua ry the man was taken sick with ty- phoid fever, and continued very ill ! for several weeks. He wont to Flori da and found temporary relief. About \ three weeks ago lie returned, bub an j imprudent exposure brought on !Vre lapse, and last week he died. In liis. latter sickness ho was attended l>y his affectionate wife with all the tender ness and care possible. She had giv en her heart to him so completely. Unit his death gave her a terrible shock. For several days she has been | lying very ill herself, and it was not until yesterday that her relatives in dulged in hopes of her recovery. The ! salve which awaits her wounded heart i when she fully recovers is a bank-bal ance at Brown Brothers’ amounting ' to nearly $50,000 in money, bequeath jed to her by the deceased in a will | regularly drawn and witnessed, and ! about which she is 11s yet in total ig j noranee. This information is derived I from the lawyer who drew the will, | and to whom the deceased communi cated the whole of the story herein briefly outlined. No. 11.