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WHOLE NO. 232. The Quitman Reporter 18 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY JOS. TILLMAN, Prop'r. TERMS 1 , One Year $2 00 Six Mouths 1 00 Three Months 50 All subscriptions must ho paid invariably in advance —no discrimination in favor ol anybody. The paper will be stopped in all instances at the expiration o f die time paid for, unless subscriptions aro previously renewed. RATES OF ADVERTISING. f Advertisements inserted at the rate ot SI.OO per square—one inch- for first, inser tion, and 75 cents for each subsequent in sertion, for throe weeks or less. For a lon ger period the following are our rates: gqra IM. 2 M. Tm 7 6M. 12 M. 1 $5 00 $8 00 10 00 15 Of) S2O 00 2 800 12 00 15 00 20 00 25 00 10 00 15 00 18 00 25 00 30 00 4 12 00 10 00 20 00 30 00 35 00 0 14 00 18 00 23 00 35 00 40 00 l5 00 20 00 25 00 40 00 45 00 1 8 18 00 25 00 30 00 45 Of) 50 00 1 col 25 00 30 00 35 00 50 00 GO 00 I col 35 00 40 00 45 00 00 00 100 PQ A square is one inch. These are our low est rates, and will he strictly adhered to. All advertisements should ho marked tor a specified time, otherwise they will be Charged under the •rule ot so much lor tlie first insertion, • and"so much tor each subse quent insertion. Marriages, Obi'.uaries and Tributes of Re spect will be charged same rates as ordinary advertisements. WHEN BILLS ABE DUE. All bills for advertising in this paper arc dne on the first appearance of. the advertise ment, except when otherwise arranged bv contract, and will be presented when the money is needed. I)r. E. A. JELKS, Practicing Physician. QUITMAN OV. OrncE: Prick building adjoining store of Messrs. Briggs, Jelks & Cos., K.-reven Street. [l-tf S. T. KINGSBERY, Attorney at Law, (JUTMAN, - - GEORGIA. in new Brick Warehouse. Business Before the U. S. Patent Office attended to. I. A. Allbritton, Attorney at Law, - - - - GA IN CO BUT HOUSE. W. A. S. HUMPHREYS, Attorney at Law, QUITMAN. GEORGIA. in the Court House HADDOCK & RAIFOUD, Attorneys at Law, QUITMAN, GEO. Will Rive prompt attention to all business intrusted to their care. over Kayton’s store. Dr. J. S. N. Snow, DENTIST. S OFFICE! - Front room up stairs over Kay on’s Storo. Gas administered for paiuless y extracting teeth. to suit the times. jan 10, ly “XT Vann. C. W. Stevens. • VANN & STEVENS, TTORNEYS AT LAW —AND — SOLICITORS IN EiJ UITY, MADISON, FLORIDA. Will practice in ail the Courts of the State; Also, in the Federal Caurts. l’romptaess guaranteed. 21 B. C. POLLARD, Cab in© t M aker- S’llOP’ apd office at the old post-office stand, next door to Repoktek office. Will offer liberal inducements to parties in want of first-class COTTAGE FURNITURE, and will de by Competition as’to'jiriooß, mako or finish of stock in my line. Full lied-Room Sets can be contracted for at remarkably low rates. All kinds of repairing of Furniture, either cild or new, done at the shortest notice, and S’ 1 a satisfactory manner. ORDERS 80- OITE-D. Call and see mo. B. C. FOTjLAIID. 208-" Quitluan, Chi. ITO THE PUBLIC! UNUSUAL INDUCEMENTS ARE OFFERED AT John Tillman's! WHO IS CONSTANTLY RECEIV ING HIS EXTENSIVE STOCK OF Spring and Summer GOODN, Which lie is offering at greatly re duced prices, consisting of I : .... | BEY GOODS, | ~1 TANARUS" ; OF ALL KINDS, 1 : Boots ami Shoes, j ;HATS: _j__ __i_ | HARDWARE | "1 ‘ I ; CROCKERY,; _j l_. 1 5 Jj O W S, I T I —AND OTHER — . Fanning Implements ! *__ * The price on plows reduced 33.\ per cent, from List year. My friends and the public generally are respectfully invited to call and examine my extensive stock before purchasing elsewhere. I expect to sell, if low prices will induce customers, and will keep goods constantly coming as they are. wanted. JOHN TILLMAN. April 5, 1K77. 214 GO TO | Badger & Johnson’s TO GET YOUR WORK PONE ! o ; Patronize Home Industry, Carried on by White Men Who are True Blue Democrats ! “The Best is the Cheapest in the End.” T TWILL DO ALL KINDS OF BUGGY, VV Wagon, Carriage, Gin, Engine, an:l plantation work upon short notice, and at HARD PAN PRICES. Will guarantee that no better work can be done South of Mason and Dixon’s line than will he done by us. We use none but tne best Northern and Western hickory, oak and ash. Vehicles of every description made to order. We will keep constantly on hand, Hubs, Spokes, Wheel Kims, Plows, and, in fact, everything needed by the farm ers and planters of the country. Give us a trial is all we ask. Will be found at the old stand of B. W. Leverett. In addition to our shop wo have secured the services of C. W. IIOWELL, carriage and buggy painter. Nov3o-tf Dn. E. A. Jelks. Dn. Harry Mabbett. Drs. Jelks & Mabbett, Having purchased the drug department of Messrs. Briggs, Jelks A Cos., would respect fully notify their friends and the public gen erally that they have just opened a NEW DRUG STORE, in the house formerly occu pied by Dr. Jelks as an office, which they have considerably enlarged, and are now supplied with a full and complete stock of Drugs, Patent Medicines, Perfumeries, Toilet Articles, Oils, Paints, Window Glass, Putty, &c., &c. Also a fine stock of SCHOOL ROOKS, STATIONERY, TOBACCO, SEGAES, SNUFF, Ac. E. A. JELKS & IIARRY MABBETT. 7-Gm BOOK-KEEPING 1 11 HE undersigned by request, offers his JL services to the young men of Quitman for the purposes of instructing them in tho above science, and guarantees that all who pass through a regular course of instruction shall be able to take charge of a set of books by double entry. . Those desirous of information Without going through a regular course of instruc tion will be accommodated. For terms and particulars, apply at this office or to Mr. Brass personally. 51' JOHN BRASS' QUITMAN, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 0, 1877. FLORIDA ITEMS. Sumter county lias suffered * : ;itli drought this season. A Town Hall is to be erected at Fort Reid, Orange county. The “Madison Guards” iutond uni ! forming themselves shortly. A fig weighing one pound was rais cd in Madison county by Mrs. E. C. ! Relot. ! The Editor of the Key West Key I was recently presented with a hand some silver watch. The value of exports from Key West to New York for the week end ing July 14th amounted to $139,200. A military company, bi.vty-five mein hers has been organized at Greenville Madison count}'. They will he arm ed. What do you think of an orange j treo measuring four and a half feet ? Thero is one at Leesburg of that size. Jackson county is probably the best county in West Florida. Ad Agri cultural Society has been recently or ganized in it. A military company has been or ganized in Feruandiua. “The Light Infantry” is the name that they wish to be known by. Temperance organizations flourish in Florida. In Jacksonville and For nandina the colored people have two flourishing lodges. Pensacola exported for the year ending the 30th of Juno, 9,475,423 cubic feet of timber, and 07,787,222 superficial feet of lumber. The lands in Orange county bring enormous prices. Five acres of land near Fort Reid recently sold for three hundred and fifty dollars. Two freight- cars on the A. G. & W. Transit Cos., between Gainesville and Waldo, took fire, a few days ago, and one was entirely consumed. —The first church erected in West Florida occupied the site of the present Fort Barurioas, and was built by the Dominican Mission, in ! 109(5. j Three immigrant wagons, contain j ing three families, from Lowndes county, Ga., passed through Lake City the other day, on route for Mar ion county. Old aunt Harriet Beecher Stowe’s house at Mandarin, on the St. Johns river, was struck by lightning one night last week. No serious damage was sustained. A correspondent of the Ocala Ban ner estimates the less to the farmers of Marion county last year, from the practice of selling their cotton in the seed, at SB,OOO. The health of Key West it is said was never better than now. It is earnestly koped that that flourish ing city will not be visited this year with an epidemic. Two young men at a pic-nic in Hernando county, recently, indulged iu a shooting and cutting scrape.— Both were seriously injured, and one, it is thought was mortally wounded. Marion county is an attractive one for the immigrant, and buildings are going up all over the county. An ex tensive saw and grist mill is in tho course of erection in Ocala, tho coun ty site. In West Florida the citizens have an excellent opportunity for making excursions to tho West. A party re cently from Pensacola visited tho Mammoth Cavo, Ivy. Faro for the round trip, $25. * The Baptist denomination at Green ville, Madison county, contemplate erecting a church very soon, upon a lot donated for that purpose by an enterprising public spirited citizen, Mr. E. J. Hayes. Mr. J. C. Rocker, of Fort Reid, was murdered a few nights ago by some unknown party. The country should bo scoured in every direction when a man murders another, and then seeks refuge in the woods. Edwards & Montgomery, two fal len office-holders, carpet-baggers, one from Leon, and the other Madison counties, nro trying “to keep hotel” in Jacksonville, namely the Metropol itan. Of course Northern radicals will love their brethren; but Florid ians, remembering thic brace of foul birds, will seek somo other place to stop at when they visit Jacksonville either for pleasure or on business.— Look out for these birds of passage, and’give them the go bye. V jointing the Constitution to Main tain the Law. The World has discovered anew jewel in the head of that ugly and veil oraous boast the Electoral Commis sion. “Let us suppose,” says tlie World, “that neither the Electoral Commission nor any equivalent plan had been adopted. In what sort of position should wo find ourselves now? The rioting which lias gone so | far now with no poiitiqnl conflict to disturb (ho unity of Virginia | and Maryland under Democratic Gov ernors, or of Pensylvauia under a Ee | publican Governor, would have be come incalculably more formidable; and when the States failed, there would have been no effective and un disputed authority left to confront it.” If the Electoral Commission had not been adopted, Samuel J. Tildeu, the rightly elected President, would have been inaugurated. Does the World think he would have been less efficient in suppressing insurrections or in tlie discharge of any duties de ! volving on the Executive ? To ns there is something supremely I ridiculous in the attitude now assumed by the World. That “the Com mission itnot unconstitutional, was extra eon, stitutional,” our contemporary con cedes; and yot it rejoices that this un constitutional tribunal was resorted j to, on the theory that it has helped to diminish the violation of the law ! How and wherein are the rioters who violato the law any worse than tho grave and reverned Senators who knowingly violated the Constitution V Moreover, the World rs out of its reckoning as to the facts. The Fed eral troops have been of little use anywhere in suppressing the riot, call ed an insurrection by Mr. Hayes. On the other hand, in the great State of New York, and emphatically in this I city, where the most danger was ap prebended, the police and tho State militia have proved entirely sufficient to enforce and preserve order. The doctrine of the World that the violation of the Constitution by the National Legislature i3 justifiable or excusable, seems to us at once dan gerous and abominable. Why re quire of Senators and Representatives an oath to support tho Constitution if that oath is not to bo binding V Schwab and the wildest fellow communists preached no more de structive doctrines than those advo cated by our contemporary. Tho Constitution is the groat bul wark on which the people have to roly for tho preservation of their fights and liberties. It may be for the interest of railway jobbers, aris tocrats and oppressors to have it dis regarded; but let no journal that justifies or excuses its violation ever pretend to speak in the interest of the masses.—Neio York Sun Affairs in Mississippi. General Steward L. Woodford, United States District Attorney of New York, who delivered tho com mencement address before the stu dents of the University of Oxford, Mississippi, a few weeks ago, has made a statement of the result of his observations in that State, which, coming from a strong Republican source, is worthy of notive. General Woodford said to a reporter of tho Washington Republican; “What attracted my attention more than anything else was that nearly everybody, white and black, was at work. I have been in the South during the past few years several times, and I never saw fewer men lounging about the store than I did on the occasion of the last visit. I was also struck with the fact that there were nearly as many acres of corn under cultivation as of cotton, so that if the cotton crop fails the peo ple down there need not bo at a loss for tho necessaries of life, with a good crop of corn in their granaries. Iu every instance that came under my personal knowledge nil contracts re specting wages entered into between the white employer and tho colored laborer were honestly observed. Al though I took particular pains to post myself upon this subject, and conversed with many colored men, I I did not hear of a single instance whore the employer had failed to keep faith with the colored laborer in the matter of wages. lam glad to say that upon every question except pol itics I found the whites and blacks perfectly cordial in their relations with each other.” Gov. Hartranft, of Pennsylvania, it will 1)0 remembered, offered Grant 100,000 militia of his Stato to enforce the counting in of Hayes and Wheel er. tho samo Hartranft was scared nearly out of his boots by the Pitts burg rioters, and lustily called on tho Federal government for protection. It is not at all surprising to see a man who was so disgustingly officious in tendering his aid to sot up a vile fraud so frightened by a mob that ho was ready to submit to it before ho mot it. at - -mm Elmira Advertiser: “Suppose we pass a law,” said a severe father to liis daughters, “that no girl eight.oon years old who can’t cook r. meal shall get married until she learns liow to do it ?” “Why then, wo’d all get married at seventeen,” responded the girls iii sweet chorus. A Horrible Crimp. Under this head, wo quote tho fol lowing from the LaGrango llfporlrv. Some two weeks ago, a little white girl about thirteen years old, was out raged near Wedoweo, Ala., as she was returning from school. The perpe trator of tho outrage was a negro about eighteen years old, very stout and strong for his ago. Tho little girl was horrible mangled and very badly choked. She died soon after the fiendish deed was done and the j perpetrator escaped. Friday night ! an old gentleman near there caught the negro but the latter threw him i down injuring him severely, and es caped. Saturday, wo understand, he was again captured and again man aged to get away. A party started in pursuit of him and traced him through Hoard county into Troup. Last Monday afternoon tho pursuing party halted at tho Lipscomb place, a mile or so from LaGrango, and dis mounted to get water. Tho crimiual had halted there also, and as they dismounted, he broke through the woods. This they learned from some of the negroes on the place. They immediately started in pur suit, after first sending to LaGrange for assistance. Mr. Martin, the sher iff, and Mr. Ware the marshal readily j went to their assistance. Tho negro j was tracked through tho woods and ! fields up to Major Speer’s house, and ! then Messrs. Martin and Ware, stand ing on the lull, saw him running with all speed in tho roar of Col. Fannin’s j house, making his way towards West Point. Tho chase was renewed again, tho pursuers finding no difficulty in following tho criminal, as one of the toes was cut off his right foot, and whenever he made a track this was plainly discernable. It was after dark when they 7 arrived at Long Cano, and they divided and j beat about tho swamp just this side, j Very soon Jim Robinson, a negro in the employ of Col. Fannin, who had ! joined the pursuit at LaGrange, was heard to call out: “Here he is—l’ve I got him!” Sure enough, he had him, i and when tho party came up tho two were rolling and tumbling about for dear life. Tho pursued had his thumb in tho vicinity of the pursuer’s eye, and had almost secceeded in ex extracting tho contents; but tho pur suer had got an unmerciful grip on the other’s throat, and the latter’s tongue was protruding. The villain was soon tied securely, and then tied jto a mule. He had run himself clear ! out of his clothes, and when captured had nothing on hut a shirt. Call tho Sheep. There is a right way and a wrong way to keep sheep. The right way is jto keep only tho best, and to keep | them in the best manner; to keep only so many as to have tho best care and attention, so as to give the largest weight of fleece possible. Tho right way is to cull out the poor ones yearly, those with the light fleeces, those that are getting advanced in years, and put them in a separate pasture and fatten them for tho butcher. Tho balance will do better, give more weight of fleece by this careful cull ing. It will not pay to keep poor sheep, but it will pay to keep good sheep, and keep them right. This is the season to carefully watch the floelc, to see which are to be kept and which are to be fattened for the shambles. All sheep must be kept well, so as to go into winter quarters j strong. They will then, with proper feed and care, pass through the win ter all right. It is thought that sheep can take care of themselves, but no kind of stock has moro need of a care ful, attentive man to take care of them.—A'ara? World. A stoppage of railway transporta tion means a stoppage of trade, which means a stoppago of work. A coal famine threatens to stop all the mills and factories in Baltimore.— Vessels are lying idle waiting for car goes. This stops work. It also means high prices, suffering aud death for tho poor. A dearth of provisions falls first upon the door.—. Suppose tho milk trains that supply New York wore stopped for ten days, how many little children would die? Gen.. Sherman says that without a strong standing army the American people will become a mob. Tho real truth of the matter is this: Jolm Sher man’s financial policy will require a strong standing army to prevent the American people from becoming a mob. The people have only to de cide whether it is cheaper to wipeout brother John’s finacial schemes, or in crease the army to enforce it. ———— '—a* <• --*g— Tho domocrats of Wisconsin are ‘•going iu” to win this year, and the republicans are becoming demoralized —so demoralized that Governor Lud ingtou has declined a re-nomination that he could have had for tho ask ing. None of the Republican small fry that liavo been named for the po sition can carry tho state. The feel ing against the policy of the Presi dent is about the same as has been displayed in lowa. The San Francisco Gall, comment ing on the work of the Fish Gmmis sioners, says it is now well understood that very few of tin Eastern varieties of fish can thrive there. It thinks tho best work of tl commission has boon in protecting and propagating 1 the native varieties Ileal Estate, Etc. in <> r r ic i<:. roll SALE, A SPLENDID LITTLE FARM. rpilE PLAGE NOW BEING RUN BY I W. U. WILSON, just two miles from town, is now offered i’or sale. It contains one hundred and tiltoen (115) acres, about sixty acres cleared and in a high state of I cultivation. The buildings on the place are quit** adequate. The place can be bought cheap. For further particulars ap ply at the REPORTER OFFICE A SPLENDID PLANTATION FOR SALE! I T CONTAINS ABOUT FOUR IIUN . DIIED (400) ACRES OF LAND, and lays directly east of Quitman; about 50 acres inside the incorporate limits of tho town, and are eligible as town lots. 125 acres cleared land oil the place. Good Gin-house and now Gill", a dwelling house and two negro cabins. Tho land is good for farming purposes, and a bargain can be had by any one who wishes to purchase, by applying to MRS. C. CULPEPPER, 213- Quitman, Ga. VALUABLE LAND for SALE I NOW offer for sale Lot of Land No. 102 in the 15th district, and south half of Lot No. 310, in the 11th district, all of Lowndes county, Ga, Lot No. 102 lays on tho Withlacoochec River, a part of which is valuable hammock, the balance good pine land. Lot No. 310 is first-class farming land, and lays in a good neighborhood, and is well timbered. Apply to tho undersigned, or to R. Y. Lane, at Valdosta, Ga. JOSEPH TILLMAN, 220 Quitman, Ga. Splendid Plantation COMPLETE OUTFIT FOR SALE! A splendid PLA ATION iu mo t cxco lent repair, NEW (SIN HOUSE, New Horse Power, New Eclipse Screw, New Gin, New Cabins, An Excellent Dwelliug House, Good Out-houses, Corn and Fodder, Mules and Horses, Cows, aud other stock, Wagons aud Carts, can bo bought cheap by applying to the undersigned. The Plantation contains 528 ACHES OF LAND, and is situated iu as good neighborhood as there is in tho State. Schools and churches near by. The lands are good and productive; the water, is excellent, and health unsur passed. The place is situated in the centre of what is known as the Hickory Head set tlement, and hr seven miles southwest from Quitman. Any ono desiring such a place would do well to confer with me at once. JOSEPH TILLMAN, 4G Quitman, Ga. $ $ IT $ ~$ READ THIS! ONLY ONE DOLLAR! For ouc dollar tho Savannah Wkf.ki.V News will bo seut, postage paid, to any ad dress for six months. It is one of the cheap est papers published, and is a welc.omo visi tor to the counting room, fireside or farm. It is a neatly printed four-page sheet, com pactly made up, and contains tho political aftd current nows of tho week; a compre hensive- stinjinnry of tho telegraphic dis patch* nod local news, and interesting sketches aud stories, It also contains full reports of tho markets. Thus, those who have not the advantage of a daily mail can got the news for six months by sending one dollar. It is just tho paper for. everybody interested in Georgia and Florida.-. It will bo well invested, and will educate your children and make homo happy. Money for either paper can bo sent by Post-oliteo order, registered letter or Express, at publisher’s risk. Address J. H. ESTUuL, 214 Savannah, Ga. Gin Rouses and their con touts insured in an old reliabl -mitiany. Terms liberal. o Vi. T. KINGSBERY, Agt. VOL. IV.—NO. 24. QUI 'X' MAN ACAt P w. JOHNSON, A.M., Principal, MHS. P. W. JOHNSON, Assistant, Ami Instructress in Instrumental and Vocal , Music . Other teachers will be added as tho in | crease of the School demands. Iu the above school pupils can receive in struction in all the branches taught iu our first-class institutions. Mrs. Johu; on is an experienced and suc cessful teacher of music. The patrons are invited to visit the School at all times, but j especially on review day, the last Friday iu [ each scholastic month. Terms per quarter of ten weeks, payable at the end of each puarter: First Class, $5; Second Class, $7.50; Third Class, $10; Eoutvru Class, $12.50. Music on Piano, including use of instru ment for practice one hour per day, $12.50. (bntingent Fee, 25 cents. 50 S20,()00.()0 -WORTH OP— DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, BAABWAftSi WOTS, SHOES, &c., To be sold immediately to mako room for more goods. OUR FRIENDS IN FGrXgN MAR kets having heard that we are doing a large business, are crowding goods upon us on consignment and otherwise, daily from> every market, consequently we must sell to make room for them. If you want gdtfds for Cash oi* Produce, VERY CHEAP, O o iii e IN o w t You will buy at such bargaiiist as you have not thought of. We can assure our friend that we are surprised at the prices of many kinds of goods being daily sent to us, and we mean to sell them accordingly. Wo- MEAN BUSINESS, and XO HUMBUG. No market shall out do OUR'3. BRIGGS, JELKS & CO. Quitntan, Ga., April 4, 1877. 214 Tlie kooks County MANUFACTURING ASSOCIATION ARE RUNNING TTieir Factory —ON FULL TIME. ril HE MOST desirable goods, such as ex-- .JL actly suit the wants of the people are made here, and at New York Prices,' less the freight to the purchaser. BROWN COTTON GOODS. 4-4 SHEETING- Standard weight. 7-8 SHlßTlNG—Standard weight. 7 aud 8 OSNABURGS . ALL COLORS OF STRIPES. YARNS IN BALES, Bs-10s. • ROPE—in half and whole, Coils. SEWING THREAD—I 6 balls to the pound. KNITTING THREAD. WRAPPING TWINE. GEORGIA PLAINS. MIXED PLAINS. WOOLEN PLAINS—AII colors. JEANS—AII colors. serWOOL CARDING A SPE CIALTY. Patronize homo industries. &cud for pricelist, and satisfy youTself where it will be to your interest to buy. Address all communications to JOSEPH TILLMAN, Prosident B. C. M. A. NOTICE TO TAX-PAYERS. WITHIN THIRTY DAYS FROM DATE all tax-payers living with ip tho cor porate limits of the town of Quitman are requested to come forward and give iti fchoir taxable property. Failing to comply they -, will be double-taxed, as the law governing such case requires. L S. SEAMAN, t June 11, 1877. Treasurer.