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I)r. E. A. -1 ELKS,
Practicing Physician.
IJIT3IA IN G A.
OmcE : Erick building adjoining store
of Messrs. Priggs, Jelks & Go., Screven
street. [l-tf
S. T. KINGSBERY,
Attorney at Law,
aim AN, - - GEORGIA .
jtefirOFFIOE in now Brick Warehouse.
Business before the TJ. S. Patent Office
attended t o,
1. A. All'britton,
Attorney at Law,
jaß-OFFIOE IX COURT HOUSE.-8^
W. A. S. HUMPHREYS,
Attorney at Law,
•QUITMAN. GEORGIA.
SWOFFIOF. if-tlio Cetrrt Honsc 'St
11 AD DOCk &RAIF< )R 1)7
Attorneys at Law,
GEO.
XViYI give ptorapt attention to all business
'entrusted to their care.
Office over Kay ton's store.
Dr. J. S. N. Snow,
D 1L !NT T IST.
OFFICE—Front room up stairs over Kny
ton’s Store. Gas administered for
U extracting teeth.
to suit the limes.
jan 10, ly
R. H. Robinson,
Physician and Surgeon
Having oponed an office opposite Hi©
>lelntoh Honse, in the building formerly
occupied by Mrs. Black, offers his services
any who may call. Office hours from 9
(to 12 J lock a. m., and from *2 to 1 r\ m.
Ga., Fefc. 2, l#7tf. 3ui
Du. B, A. Jeww. Dr. Harry Mabbett.
l)rs. Jelks & Mabbett,
Having purchased the drug department of
Messrs. Briggs, Jelks & Cos., would respect
fully notify their friends and the public gen
erally that they lmvo just opened a NEW
pliUd STORE, in the house formerly occu
pied by J)r. Jelks as an office, which they
nave considerably enlarged, and are now
h4pptied with a’full and completo stuofc of
Drugs,
Patent Medicines,
Perfumeries,
Toilet Articles,
Oils, Paints,
Window Glass,
Putty, &c v Ac.
Alho a fine stock of SCHOOL BOOKS,
STATIONERY. TOBACCO, SEGARS,
SNUFF, Ac,
E. A. JELKS A HARRY MABBETT.
7-Gm
ite (Quitman llcy iirfcr
A hotel in Kansas has tlio following
notice displayed in the bedrooms:
“Gentlemen wishing to commit sui
cide will please take the centro of the
room, to avoid staining the bed linen,
walls, and furniture with blood.”
“While Ben Hill defends Ander
sonville,” says the Ogdcnsburg Jour
nal, “.Starbuck comes to the rescue of
Mrs. Suratt.” This is very gallant of
Starbuck; but bow can ho hope to
rescue a woman who was most foully
murdered ten years ago.— Courier
Journal.
■ ■ ■ • ■
It is said that the liquor drinkers
of the State of New York annually
liquify and pour down their rascally
throats upward of $100,000,000.
Great and eternal blazes! That
much in one year! Why, it’s as
much as we’ve even spent for liquor
and cigars both in ten years—yes, in
ten years and nearly three months !
Courier-Jo u m at.
Rochester Democrat and Chroni
cle: “No battle-pieces having any
thing to do with the late war will be
permitted among the. pictures at the
Centennial Exhibition; and wo call
upon all Northern families to expunge
from the Bible the names of their j
boys who perished on the field.” We !
should hate, above all things, to be I
the father of the idiot who wrote that!
sentence, for in that case wo should !
! cease bitterly to regret that we
hadn't drowned the dog when ho was
a puppy.— Courier-Journal.
o ♦
Ono half of the population of Phil
adelphia is red in the face swearing
that it will not go near the Exposi
tion if it eloses on Sunday. The oth
er half is pale, but determined not to
go near the place if it is opened on
Sunday. The same population is
again divided in halves, traversely, on
the subject of selling beer and wine
on the grounds. Altogether we
shouldn’t be a bit surprised to see
these raging Quakers tear down the
whole show before it begins in order
to carry .their respective points’,—De
troit iUrfbunr. t
Of the 1,141 counties in the United
States more are named after Wash
ington than any other President of
the United States, the number being
29. The names of the other Presi
dents represented by counties occur
as follows: Jefferson, 23; Jackson,
21; Madison, 19; Monroe, 18; Lincoln,
17; Grant and Polk 11 each; John
son, 11; Harrison, 9; Adams, 8; Tay
lor, 7; Van Buren, 4; Pierce, 4; Buc
hanan. 3; and Fillmore and Tyler, 2
each. In many cases, however, in
the above list counties were not
named after the Presidents, but the
selection of a name was influenced by
local considerations. There arc 22
counties named after Franklin, 20 af
ter Colfax, 17 after Marion, 2 after
Fremont, 3 after Greeley, 1 after Hen
dricks, 8 after Benton and Boone,
9 after Cass, Marshall and Putnam,
14 after Carroll, 11 after Douglas,
and 18 after Montgomery. The names
of almost all of the revolutionary he
roes except Arnold are represented in
the list.
The Burlington (lowa,) Hawkeye is
not helpiug out Georgia much in
tla-ffl matter of immigration, by its
publications eoncering our State, al
though what it says is absolutely true.
And still we cannot get a legislature
to pass a dog law. Here is what the
Ilaivkeye has to say: “In Georgia,
there are thirty-one dogs to every
one hundred sheep, and last year the
dogs killed 28,625 sheep, equal iu val
ue to all the dogs that have been
born and raised in this country since
the declaration of independence. The
yearly slaughter of good sheep by
worthless dogs has so discouraged
tho farmers that while there were
nearly fifteen years ago, 512,618
sheep, there were last year but 319,-
325, a decrease of 38 per cent. And
this is the story ia every State where
the people try to raise dogs and sheep
at the same time. If there oould only
be imported a breed of sheep that
could and would annually kill some
where lobs than six million dogs, there
would be no objection to letting the
dogs take their chances, and showing
the sheep no favor. As it is, howev
er, the only remedy for this evil is
the imposition of a heavy taxon dogs,
so that the man who persists in keep
ing a worthless dog, would have to
pay the price of a good one every
year. The wool growers are all in
favor of such a system, but thus far
the dog owners appear to be vastly in
the majority.
QUITMAN, GA., THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1876.
STATE NEWS.
Pencilings and Scissorings from
our Exchanges.
—Col. Cary W. Styles has taken
charge of the Atlanta Commonwealth.
—There is considerable complaiut
of rust in the wheat crop in Middle
Georgia.
—Gubernatorial and- Congressional
candidates are thickening.
—Thomasville Times: The Baptist
church has called the Rev. W. B.
Bonnet, Professor in Young Female
College, to the pastorate of the clmrch
here. We congratulate the members,
who have had no regular pastor for
several months, on having secured
the services of Mr. Bonnet who we
understand has accepted the call. He
will have services regular after next
Sabbath.
—lt now transpires that many of
the “loading citizens of Atlanta,” who
became subscribers to the capital
stock of the Atlanta Cotton Factory,
arc unwilling to pay in their money to
Hi Hannibal. It has just now occur
red to them that they would have no
assurance that their capital would be
safe in the hands of the great “devel
oper.”
—We don’t know who he is. but
someone of the Georgia delegates to
the St. Louis convention is credit
ed with the following, in reply to a re
quest which the context explains:
“Your favor of the 15th, asking mo to
express my preference for Presidential
candidates with a view to publication
in the New York Herald, is at hand.
Pardon me, but I should think it
wrong for y Southern delegate
thus to express himself even if he had
a decided preference. I have no de
cided preference, and don’t know at
this moment for whom I should vote
if I had the nomination in my own
hands. My only purpose shall be to
aid in the nomination of some availa
ble man whose principles are sound
and entirely Democratic, and who is
capable of administering the govern
ment upon such principles. My in
clinations, I think, will be for the man
who has used the least means to se
cure his nomination and of whom the ;
newspapers have spoken the least; for !
I mpst confess that I have-riiltle pa
liuiseti with the eilbrts to force a pal
titular man upon the party.”
—Ham, of the Warren ton Clipper ,
has an attack of pneumonia.
—Bainbridge Democrat: Order of i
business at the Press convention: A j
drink; a speech; a drink; mot ion by
Kayton; a drink; speech; drink; mo
tion by Mumford; drink; adjourn
ment.
I —The girls of the S. M. F. College,
! at Covington will graduate.; in calico
I drosses.
—Covington Enterprise: On last
Wednesday President Bradshaw an
nounced the names of the young la
dies of the S. M. F. College, who
would be entitled to honors and read
ers places in the Senior and Junior
classes of that Institute. Below we
give the names of the young ladies,
who were so highly honored and com
plimented:
SEXIOK CLASS.
Ist Honor —Miss Jennie White.
2d Honor—Miss Laura Jarreit.
3d Honor Miss Carrie Hyer.
The young ladies who will read in
the Junior Class, will be. Misses. An
nie Anderson; Mattie Callaway; Rosa
DeLaprierro.; Addle Echols; Fannie
Hicks; Annie Irving; Lillie Lee; May
Walker; Louora Weaver; Minnie
Worrill.
—Atlanta Constitution: Mrs. Stone
wall Jackson, accompanied by her
daughter, reached here at 4p. in.,
'and left last night for Selma Alabama,
where she has a brother. Mrs. Jack
son is revered throughout the South.
She is pleasing and unaffected in her
manners, well informed on all topics
of general interest and engaging in
conversation. Had uot the several
hands been engaged her thousands of
warm admirers here would have given
her a serenade.
—The Albany News says that Mr.
G. H. Child, a go-a-head farmer of
Dougherty county, has planted one
thousand almonds diriect from Cali
fornia, and is almost assured of suc
cess in that now line.
—A sixteen year old white girl in
Rome became so disgusted with life
because her mother slapped her
that she attempted to suicide twice
by hanging, but was cut down both
times before life was extinct.
—Thus the Augusta Constitution
alist: Southwest Georgia has not
been ruined, if ruined at all, by East
ern bondholders. A country that
can feed itself and fails to do so, may
be guilty of suicide but is not murder
ed. But if murder be proved, instead
of suicide, then is the West, tho Rad
ical West, from which S. W. Georgia'
procures its food, the assassin of that
region which fails to make food sup
plies though abundantly able to do so.
—Mrs. Dr. Bivings, of Dalton,
dropped dead m tlio Methodist Church
[ast Sunday from heart disease.
—Master Hanna, of Thomasville,
eleven years of age, besides attending
school, has plowed, planted and
chopped out one acre of cotton. And
that’s wlmt’s the matter with Hanna.
—The Columbus Enquirer is re
sponsible for the the following: It
was between Troup Factory and West
Point three nights ago. Messrs. Bill
Harrell, Duncan and Hackney, of Co
lumbus, were camped out. They had
built a fire near a chestnut log which
had a hollow in it. Soon a rattle
snake, with twelve rattles and two
buttons, came out and bit Harrell
about the ankle. He was sleeping
nearest the log. He felt no pain, but
a yell was raised. He was dosed
with a half pint of whisky, and chewed
and swallowed a plug of tobacco, and
was stood on his head for fifty-five
minutes. He is now thoroughly well.
The snake died in two minutes after
ho made the bite. Sworn to as a fact.
The silane was eight feet long and
twenty-five years old. Wo have seen
Harrell. He swears to it.
—Bainbridge Democrat : Small men
like Col. Thompson, Hemphill, Gregg
Wright, CTisby and others, had noth
ing to say at the Press Convention.
Larger lights, like Mumford, Martin,
Kayton, and so on, did the talking for
the concern.
—The Tournament at the Thorans
villo Floral Fair to-morrow promises ;
to be a brilliant affair.
A Story that Ought to Live For
ever.
There comes to ns from the West-;
ern district a story on the details of
which a Bret Harto or a Colonel Hay
would found a poem. The other day
a gang of laborers were employed
stacking blocks of stone on a perma
nent way of the Great Western rail
road, between Keyn'sham and Bristol.
In fact, the operation of stone stack
ing was carried on within a few yards
of the Brislington tunnel. It was at
the time of day when the most won
derful express train in the world, call
ed the “Flying Dutchman," was ex
pected, and by some uni Betsy accident
a large block of stone rolled down the
embankment, lodging on the reilway
line. At this instant the roar of the
“Flying Dutchman” was heard in the
tunnel. Not a moment was to be
lost, so swiftly down the bank sped j
one of the brave.navvies to remove
the stone and save hundreds of inuo- j
' i. - ’ - in tli- tO V'lmpt. j
He had ft wife and family at home,
but he never thought of them. His
life was in his baud, but he never
thought of that. Down the steep eui-
i bankment sped the brave fellow, nerv
'ed with the combined strength of
i Sisyphus and Atlas, to move the stone
j and save his fellow-creatures. On
i sped the “Flying Dutchman!” “(Jflk'k
| lor your life, Jnn,” shouted the cWn
panion on the bank. Alas!'it was
just too late; the stone was rolled out
of the way, but the hero was cut to
pieces by the fangs of tho murderous
train. This is as grand and noble a
story as ever was told. It is finer
than the tail of “Jim Bludso,” the
moral of whose story is told with such
impetuous vigor and truth by the au
thor of “Little Breeches.”
“He know’ll his duty, a daedsure tiling,
And lio went for it thnr and then;
And Christ ain't agoing to be too hard
On a man that died lor men i”
If ever thero was a brv,ve fellow
who laid down his life for tue sake of
his fellow creatures it was tb r s hero
of the Brislingtou tunnel. His wife
and children ought to be looked after,
and have no doubt come under the
consideration of the citizens of Bris
tol. But the story ought to live for
ever.-—London Era.
REMARKABLE CURE QF .1 SNAKE
BITE. "
Rev. J. E. King, of ting place, in
forms that his little daughter >was bit
ten by a poisonous snake, a few
ago, and he cured her by simply L'coff.r
iug tho part bitten close toJjhe nre
and the poison was. arrester and
drawn out by the heatK of the fire,
just in tho same way that burns are
cured by holding tho burned part
near the fire. Mr. King says this is
the second cure he has effected by
this simple remedy and that he has
known of several other cures by
the same remedy within his acquaint
ance.
He says it was accidentally discov
ered several years ago, by a young
man who was bitten on the foot by a
ground-rattlesnake, one of the most
poisonous of all snakes, while working
ou the farm of his uncle in North Car
olina. When bitten, the young matt
called out help, aud went to the place
where the hands had a fire to warm
their dinner and, while waiting for at
tention, ho held his foot to the fire
to see if he had any feeling iu it; that
previous to holding his foot to the fire
he felt the poison going up his leg
Hko a hot iron was being run up his
leg, and when ho held his foot near
the lire the pain was greatly increas
ed, but, instead of continuing up his
leg, it slowly came down and finally
quit hurting, and, wheu the wound
was examined, the poison was picKed
out in a lump on the point of a Knife.
Mr. Kiug is a minister of the Bap
tist church, of good standing, and is
a man whose statements are worthy of
implicit confidence. 'We publish this
remedy for the public good. It is a
simple remedy and oue within the
leach of all, and should be generally
Known. -Spartanbur'j Herald.
TllE PHENOMENA OF DEATH.
New York Sun.
Dr. Frederick R. Marvin gnvo to
the Liberal Club last evening a phy
; sician’s view of death, his subject be
! ing the “Physiology of Death.” The
history of death embraces three peri
ods, the fabulous, the superstitious
! and the philosophical. The fabulous
period was in mythological times, in
which death was personified as the
goddess Mors, the glance of whoso
eye was fatal; the superstitions era
was that long period in which death
was regarded as an instantaneous
change a stroke that came and cut off
life from tlio whole body at once. Ours
i is the philosophical age.
The lecturer bad experimented on,
! dogs to discover the order of time in
! which the senses die. To one "dog he
gave arseuiou acid. The second died
i instantly upon his introducing u
needle into the medulla oblongata;
and the third he bled to death. In
the last, the order of death was: Sight,
taste, smell, hearing, touch; which es
tablished the fact that the senses
disappear in the same order as they
do in sleep.
The human body is an aggregation
of cells. Life is the segmentation of
i these cells; death their disintegration,
i Each cent dies for itself. Every rao
| ment cells are springing into life; ev- j
i cry moment cells are dying. Our bod- j
ies are composed of those little points.
Take them away, and there is nothing !
left of us but the connecting shreds, j
There are d;ad cells in your body,
and when you are dead, there will,
for some time continue to be living I
ones. Y\ T e shall all, at some time, be I
resolved into carbonic acid, water and |
the mineral elements.
The whole surface of our globe, said
the speaker, has been dug over one i
hundred and twenty-eight times to |
bury its dead, even not reckoning the
long age of the world which is given
it by modern science, an! we*inhale,
we feed upon elements the very atoms, j
that have .been living human beings
before. The dead, he continued, live
again, and greet them in the perfume
of the city, in the light flakes of the
snow, in the thousand leaves of the
forest.
Death, the Doctor says, is painless.
There is no moment in onr lives in
in which molecular death is not go
ing on in us. The last words of a'
multitude of persons indicate that
mere disintegration is painless. To
die of cold, after the first agony is I
over. is_a. insnry. So is drowninn
The smile of death, the placidity of;
death, comes to all features after the ]
rigor mortis. That is over in three j
days.
-
Wasn’t Afraid of Rees.
As they saw the bees passing them
selves around familliarly, the lady
uttered a timid “Good gracious! We
can’t go by there!” “Pshaw!” ejacu
lated her lord and master, “don't be
foolish. Bees never molest any one
that, does not molest them. They are
perfectly barmlessjlif you let them
alone. All you need is a nerve; when
they come buzzing about you walk
fight along, and don’t so much ns
make a motion toward them, even if
they should light on your face. Como
on, now; if you haven’t nerve, just
look at me, and see how simple it is.”
With i pardonable feeling of pride in
her noble husband, the wife watched
him as he moved steadily along to
ward tho tree where tho greater por
of the insects were having a rehersal
a laJlilrnore's band, while a number
were doing the Skidmore Guard ou
the fence, and still others were sliding
around in the air, evidently on pick
et duty, humming “We'll march
around Jerusalem.” Seeing that her
husband was not annoyed by the fel
lows, the lady followed him but took
the precaution to throw a light shawl
over her head and shoulders, leaving
,only a peep-hole for one eye. Kun
ming up to her husband—who was
walking along looking cross-eyed at a
bee which had lit upon his nose, and
wondering whether the cussed little
creature was going to give him one,
just for luck, and thinking how sweet
be would look with a proboscis re
sembling a quarter section of lob
ster—she inquired, ‘ John, ain't you
afraViijk not thinking of anything else
to the occasion. He turn
en up Jliip and the tip of his nose
in disi!H| at the thought, and just
then it from the bee ou the
upper deck! His wife will never for
get the exclamation he gave utterance
to, and tho bystanders generally re
marked that it was exhaustive, and
fully did justice to the occasion. He
struck at the bee viciously, and in a
second the whole Skidmore Guard,
Jerusalem warblers and Gilmore band
were upon him. They took him on
the face and hands, nibbled his ears,
prospected bis back, ran up his nose
and sank more shafts on the top of
his bald head than there are on
tho Comstock lode. If he had been
possessed of a thousand hands he
could not have kept the enemy off,
and if his name had been Job lie could
not have helped calling down male
dictions upon all tho women as lie
heard his wife advising under her
t shawl, “Don’t bit at them, John!
Don't fight them!” There was a gen
i oral roar of laughter from all spoeta
- tors as the “man of nerve” took to his
| heels, his arms working like an old
jfusliioned windmill during a gale,
! while liis wife walked along secure in
1 her bee-proof —San Frame's <y Btxord.
A Thoughtful Husband.
If lie had confined himself to hisle
: gitimate quill driving duties, there
would have been no occasion for him
j to be strutting around with his left
I hand in a sling, a patch upon his nose
I and an absmd old shoo on his left
foot. Ho was, however, only another
victim to that egotistical opinion of
| all men, that they can do anything
better than a woman,
j He went homo recently, and found
I his wife putting up peaches in those
'■ old fashioned tin cans that are closed
1 with sealing wax. She had an old
apron on, and two or three little
: splotches of sealing wax ornamented
the floor, while the cat under the ta
ble was licking a piece the size of a
postage stamp on her back with as
siduity.
“Seo here, Maria,” ho said, “you
will Cripple vourself with that hot
sealing wax directly;” but as she made
no answer, he continued oracularly:
“Women never havh any mechanical
genius any way. If there is a way of
doing anything wrong, they are sure
to try it.”
“Do you think you can do it any
better ?” she observed with some acid
ity.
“Why, of course I can.”
“Well, here, just distinguish your
self then.”
So he sat down. Sho handed him
a fresh can, just out of the hot water.
He took it in his hand and dropped it
as though it had been a streak of
lightning, while he stuck his fingers
in his mouth and looked sudden death
to her because he could not swear.
Sho gave him a towel to hold the
next one with, and he took it on his j
knee,' lighted the sealing wax stick, j
and commenced prodding around the !
top;but the bottom burned his knee,
and he jerked, bringing the burning
wax across the back of his left hand.
Then ho jumped up and howled,j
dropping the can, which emptied a ;
spoonful of boiling preserves into his ]
slipper. This made him frantic, and I
he went dancing about in the kitchen |
like an inebriated dervish, waving the
burning wax until a drop took him on j
the nose.
In his agony he kicked the offend- '
ing can through the window, scatter
ing the contents over the dog, who
rushed into the street howling, and ,
raised an alarm of “mad dog !’’ that
occupied the attention of all the peo-1
pie within half a mile.
Then ho submitted to be laid upon i
the sofa, and plastered with flour and
soap, and sweet qil,. until lie looked 1
like a badly repaired scarecrow.
He is now willing to take an affida- j
vit the size of a barn door that he I
will hereafter let the women be as j
awkward as they choose.
Our First.
[From Hie Meriden Herald. ]
He wasn’t a ferocious-looking man,
and evidently only came in to remon
strate in a kindly manner. Some-
I thing we had written did not exactly
meet his views (what it was he never
delayed to tell in detail), and he
thought he ought to drop in and talk
it up. There were three present be
sides the editor, and a big Newfoun
land dog belonging to one of the re
porters lying under the table. The
minute he opened tho door the dog
had him by the lappcl of the coat,
and yanked him into tho room with
a startling vehemence. It unnerved
him a little—it would any man—and
after ho had coughed up liis tobacco
quid he said: “I don’t ’spose it makes
much difference, but you fellows got
it in ’totlier day that my gal Phoebe
wore her mot.her’s.hair at a crow Hol
low surprise”-—just there the local
stopped, puffed out a drawer in tho
bottom of hts desk and took hold of a
black walnut file, on which our pre
vious issues were suspended.
“Don’t,” ho screamed. “Don’t
draw no gun ou me! lajait mad; and
I’d not stopped in offly for the ole
woman! Lemme git out and we’ll call
it square,” and ho made a brake for
the door, overturned u chair and made
suck a racket that the dog went for him
again. He flew along the passage,
with the dog- clinging to his coat-tail,
and just at die landing, while his head
was turned to beat the animal off, lie
fell over a box of type that the ex
pressman had left standing there, and
the next he knew lie had caromed on
every step of tlioso two flights of
stairs, clean out into the sidewalk.
As lie picked himself up he looked
as if he had been shot out of a balloon
and walked ou by a St. Patrick’s day
procession. He not only has not stop
ped liis ‘paper, but has rent a quarter
in advance—through the mail.
Sweet Oil eok Poison. —lt is now
over twenty years since I heaid that
sweet oil would cure the bite of a rat
tle-snake, not knowing that it would
cure other kinds of poison. Practice
and experience have taught me that
it will cure poison of any kind, both
on man and beast. The patient must
take a spoonful of it internally, and
bathe the wound for a cure.
To euro a horse it takes eight tiroes
as much as for a man. One of the
most extreme eases of snake bites oc
cured eleven years ago. It had been
of thirty days standing, and the pa
tient had been given up by his physi
cians. I gavo him a spoonful of the
oil, which effeoted a cure. It will
cure bloat in cattle caused by fresh
clover. It will cure the stings of
bees, spiders, or other insects, and
persons who have been poisoned by a
low running vine called ivy.
1 The Choi.eka and G apes.— L. Con
! uell, at the New York Farmers’ Club,
iu answer to a query asking for a
| cure for cholera and gapes in chick
ens, replied:
“Having in the past had a good
deal of trouble with chickens dying
with cholera, I now write to the club
to inform them that I had found a
remedy which for two years{has serv
ed mo with good effect. When my
fowls begin to look sleepy and act
stupid, I give them three or four ta
blespoonsful of strong alum-water,
and repeat the same the next day. f
also mix their food with alum-water,
feeding it twice a day for two or
three days, afterward once a week,
j Since beginning this practice I have
: not lost a hen from cholera. Asa
| preventative, have the roosting places
I dry and clean; the place where chick-
I ens roost should bo cleaned as often!
as once a week, and sprinkled with
; lime or wood ashes. (rapes, to which
! young chickens are usually liable in
j excessively warm weather,is a disease
caused, 1 think, by illy ventilated and
unclean coops, together with un
wholesome, sour food and putrid wa
ter. gapes also appear as an epidem
ic, and when this is the case the af
fected fowls should be at once remov
ed from the others. It is generally
thought that an internal Worm infest ■
ing the windpipe causes the gapes.
There are several modes of treatment
for this. One tried by me I can rec
ommend: Take a small quill feather,
strip the vane excepting half an inch
from the end of the feathers, dip this
in spirits of turpentine, and miss it
down through the small opening of
the windpipe, give it two or three
turns, and it will either bring up the
worm or destroy them. The turpen
tine kills the worms at once, and also
excites a fit of coughing, during
which the worms thnt are not drawn
out with the feather wilt be expelled.”
Colored Coxjurehs. —The Little
Rock (Ark.) Gazette says: A few
weeks since the grand jury in Lincoln
! county was made aware of the exist
| ence of a band of negro “conjurers.”
j One of the party, who, it seems, had
i iess faith than lus companions “peach
ed,” and the secret was exposed. Tho
; officers of the law were at once placed
in possession of the facts, and in a day
! or two the ringleaders were in custo
! ‘ly- The negroes had collected what
I they designated as a “conjuring moss”
by the aid of which they were to be
j come bold and defiant burglars. Tho
“mess” was as follows: Two human
; lingers, a burnt cow horn, a saucer of
| lard, several pieces of loadstone, a
i silver three cent piece, some home
made tobacco, a pod of red pepper, a
| piece of bamboo root, a bird’s nest,
| pieces of red flannel, a piece of skin
j from the heel of a human being, some ■
i negro hair, a large needle and an
j earth worm. The superstitious gang
proposed to boil this disgusting con
glomeration, believing the fingers
would burn like candles, and aid them
in their criminal designs. The par
ties who were arrested thought that
whoever enhaled the odor of tho.
“mess” would become unconscious,
and that they could rob and perhaps
murder without danger to them
selves. The Jleraiil , published at
Star City, says the grave of a negro
was robbed to obtain the fingers,
which were cut from the hand, and
that the matter will be fully investi
gated and the guilty parties punished,
to the full extent of the law.
Josu Billings ox Wisdom. —Go slo
young man; if you tap both ends of
your cider barrel at once, and draw
emt, of the bung-hole besides, your
cider ain’t goin to last long.
I lmd a great deal rather be told
that a man is virtuous and honest than
to hear that his father is a member or
Congress, or even tlint. his grand fa
ther fit ia the revolushun.
Men sumtime hev doubt about
their religun, and even honesty, but
I never met ono who doubted his
shrudehess.
Lazy men and black ants are al
ways huntiug for a job.
Yu kant hire a man to be honest;
ef you doo, heSvill want his wages
raised every morning.
There is a great deal of religun in
this world that is like a life-preserver
—only put on at tho moment of ex
treme danger, and then haif the time
put on hind side before.
Stick and hang, young man, it ia
the last six inches in a raise that wins:
the inunuy.
If yu want to find out how mean
and dishonest yu hev been git a norn
iuasliuu and run for sum offis.
Those who are tew proud to in
is wire what things cost when they bi
it, are fust to find fault when they
cum to pay for it.
Wanted to be a June Bus.—Sho
wn r a colored lady, and attending a
revival of religion, and had worked
herself up to the extreme pitch of go
ing to the good placo in a moment,
or sooner if possible. As her friends
gave vent to their feelings, she like
wise gave vent to her feeling, and ex
claimed:
“I wish I was a June bug!”
A brother of sable hue standing
near by inquired:
“What you want to be one for?”
“That 1 might fly to my Jesus.”
“You fool nigger woodpecker
ketch you 'fore you git half way dar.”
The dearest object to a men should
be his wife; but it is not unfrequeutly
her clothes.
No. 13.