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VOL. 11l The Quitman Reporter M PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY •TON, TILLMAN, Prop’r. TKliMfe: ’One Year $2 00 • Six Mouths 1 00 Three Months HO All subscriptions must be paid invariably in advance —no discrimination in favor of The paper will bo stoppod in all instances at the expiration o f the time paid for, unless subscriptions are previously renewed. RATES OF ADVERTISING. Advertisements inserted at. the rate of SI.OO per squaro-oue inch—for first, in sc r- Xion, and 75 cents for each subsequent in sertion. All advertisements should be marked for a specified time, otherwise they will be •rhargod under the rule of so much for the first insertion, and so much for each subse quent insertion. Marriages, Obiruaries and Tributes of Re spect will be charged same rates as ordinary advertisements. WHEN BILLS AIiE D UK. All biiis'for advertising in this paper are due on the first appearance of the advertise rjierit. except when otherwise arranged by contract, and will be presented when the money is needed. 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.