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WHOLE NO. 335. The Quitman Reporter IH PUBLISHED EVEIIY THUIMDAt lit %TOX. TILLMAN, Prop'lN T Iff it M fee \}ne Year... :: $2 fK) hi* Mdnthft ~ i (W Tt'hri'e Months 50 All subscriptions must bo paid invariably "in advance —ild clisdiiitiiuatloil in finer of Anybody. The paper will bo stopped in all instances Kt the expiration of the time paid for, unless ■subscriptions ate previously renewed. RATES OP ADVERTISING. Advertisements inserted Ut tipi rate of 11.00 per square- one inch for first inser tion. and 75 cents for each subsequent in sertion, for three weeks or less. For a ldit 'ger period the following afe our rates: tgqrs 1 M. 2 M. 3M~ ti NT lilT 1 SI (111 SSOO 10 00 15 00 S2O 00 2 800 12 00 15 00 20 00 25 00 :t 10 00 15 00 18 00 25 00 Oil 00 4 12 03 10 00 12000 | fit) 00 35 00 5 14 00 1180012300 135 00 40 00 fi 15 00 1 200012500 [4O 00 45 00 H 18 00 j2SOD|T) 00 145 (111 50 00 icnl 25 00 130001 35 00 50 0(1- 00 00 1 col 35 00 140 Oil 145 IKI |OO 00 100 00 A square is cite inch. These are quf low bst rates, and will be strictly adhered to. All advertisements should be marked tor n specified time, otherwise they will be blunged under the rule ot so much for the first insertion, and so much fdr each subse quent insertion. Marriages, Obimaries and Tributes of Re spect will be charged same rates as ordinary Advertisements. ir/r/Lv if in a ul due. All bills for advertising in this paper are due on the first appearance of the advertise hinnt, except when otherwise arranged by Contract, and will ho presented when the inoney is needed. fir. E. A* JELKS, Practicing Physician, QUITMAN (, A-. ?)pncE : Brink Building adjoining store of Messrs. Briggs, Jelks it Cos., Screven Itrect. [.l-tf 8. T. KINGSRERY, Attorney at Law, 'QUITMAN, - - GEORGIA. *rOFFICE in now Brick Warehouse. "tS-R Business before lliS U. S. Patent Oinee jttouded A. A. Allbritton, Attorney at Law, - - - - CrA jMK>FFIOE IN COURT HOUSE. W. A. S. HUMPH KEYS, Attorney at Law, QUITMAN. - QEORdIA. ,S*OFFICE in the Court House. "tS^ HADDOCK & 11AIFORI), Attorneys at Law, QUITMA.TVO I-iO. Will give prompt attention to all business to tlieir care. j?E£f-Oflioo over Kayton’s store. Dr. J. S. N. Snow, T> E IST T IST OFFICE -Front room np stairs oveiEKay ton’s Store. Gas administered lor jraifuess iy extracting teeth. to suit the times. jail 10, ly ' E. J. Vann. (J: \f. S'tevknb. YAW & STEVENS, Attobnilys at 1 daw —AM#— SOLICITORS IN EQUITY, Madison, Florida. Will practice, in all the Courts of the Stale; hlso, in the Federal Caurt.s. f'reinptnese guaranteed. 21 B. C. POLLARD, Cabinet Maker- BHOP atlil office at the old post-office stand, next dofor to BEroiiTEu office. Will offer liberal inducements to parties in Want of ttrst-cliUfc COLT AGE FURNITURE, And Will Dl'U’Y DOjifeSTition fta to prices, mate or finish of stoclc in my lino. Full Bid- lino'rfl Sets can be contracted lor at remarkably low rates. All kinds of repairing of Furniture, either Bid tfi Hew, done at tlio shortest notice, and |rf and satisfactory manner. ORDERS SO LR'ITED. Cali and see me. B. C. POLLARD. ads'- Quitman. Ga. - -- . 1 ■ ■ Til THE PUBLIC! UNUSUAL INDUCEMENTS AIIE OFFERED AT John Tillman’s! WHO tS CONSTANTLY RECEIV ING HIS EXTENSIVE STOCK OF Spring and Summer OOODS* Which ho is offering at greatly re duced prices, consisting of I ! | DRY GOODS, ~ ] ' T~ ! OF ALL KINDS, ! i Roots and Shoes, j ; HATS,; _l L J HARDWARE^ ~r “ " r j CROCKERY,; [ I I1 5 liow sJ_ 1 I —AND 6thnil * * —^* | Fannin? Implements ! | The price on plows reduced 33 J per cent, from List year. My friends and tlio public generally are respect folly invited to cull and trc-minc my stock helorc purchasing elscwhere. 1 expect to sell, if low prices will induce customers, and will keep goods constantly coming as they are wanted. JOHN TILLMAN. April 5, 1877. 214 GO TO Badger & Johnson’s TO CKT YOUR WORK BONK ! Patronize Home Industry, Carried on by Mhite Men Who are True Blue Bemocrats ! “The Best is the Cheapest in the Thai." TTTILT, DO ALL KINDS OF BUGGY, V? Carriage, Giu, Engine, and plantation work noon short notice, and at HARD PAN PRICES. Wifi guarantee that no better work can be doue South of Mason and Dixon’s Vine than will l>e done by us. We use lione but the Rest Northern and Western hickory, oak amt ash. Vehicffes of every description made to order. We will keep constantly on hand, Hubs, Spokes, Wheel Rim's, Plows, and, in filet, everything needed by tho farm ers and planters of the country. Give ns a trial is all we ask. Will bo found at the old stand of B. W. L-cvci'ctr. In addition to onr shop we have secured the services of C. W. HOWELL, carriage and buggy painter. NovSO-tf Da. E. A. Jei.es. Du. Haicry Mabbett. Dr*. Jelks & Mabbett, Having purchased the drug department of Messrs, iiriggs, Jelks it Cos., would respect fully notify tlicir friends and the pitblic gen erally that they have just opened a NEW DKUCr STOKE, 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, &e., &c. Also a fine stock of SCHOOL BOOKS, STATIONERY, TOBACCO, SEQARS, SNUFF, Ac. E. A. JELKS A HARRY MAUBETT. 7-fim BOOK-KEEPING riIHE ttndei'signed by request, offers his A sefvices to the young inen of Quitman for the purposes 61,instructing them in the above science, and guarantees that all who pass through a regular course of instruction shall bo able to take charge of a set of hooks by double entry. Those desirous of informal ion 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. SI JOHN BRASS. QUITMAN, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1877. FLORIDA ITEMS. The new jail at Jacksonville now contains forty prisoners. The wholesale poisoning of dogs is going on in Jacksonville in a socret way. Mr. A. L. Eicholbcrgor, near Ocala, will make 80 barrels of sorghum syrup this season: There is a good opening in Talatka for a hardware and furniture store. So sajs the Herald. Two negro whiskey thieves were arrested ill Tensficola Inst week while engaged in rolling off a barrel of the juice. —We have received a copy df the Weekly Advertiser) an amateur paper published at Mandarin, Fla. It has somo novel features. A bee tree in Jefferson county, near Waukeenali, yielded 25 gallons of honey and 22| pounds of beeswax— ■ the latter worth $5.70. J —A now paper is to he started in Quincy, Gcdsdeu county, about the first of September. It will bo devoted principally to the interests of the planters. A colony of Philadelphians have located in the western part of Putnam county. That section is filling up rapidly by thrifty Northern and West ern settlers. Columbia county will make an av erage crop of Corn and cotton this year. The cane crop is also good. The cultivation of rice is receiving more attention, and does well. They have some very large people in Gadsden county. The editor of tho Herald recently counted in one crowd nineteen radii, dach of whom would weigh over 220 pounds. The foundation of anew jail has been laid in Madison, and Capt. lu glis has commenced a brick fire-proof warehouse at tho depot. The ware house will bo one hundred and ten feet square. Fred Roth, a German barber of Jacksonville, lias undergone all the forms and ceremonies of the Jewish religion and become one of “the chosen people of God”—all for the sake of her ho loves. The Mayor of Pensacola has issued a quarantine proclamation forbidding all vessels from ports in Cuba from lauding at that port until frost. Yel low fever is said to exist on that island, hence the proclamation. Jackson County has $20,000 of scrip outstanding, some of which is thought to bo fraudulent. The Commissioners of the county have proposed to the holders to fund their scrip in ten year bonds at fifty cents on the dol lar. Somebody around Fernandina is stirring up the Liberia movement, and trying to induce the negroes to emigrate to that country. The couii ty paper speaks against the move, and gives some good advice to the negroes. A Washington dispatch of last week Contained this information: “Ex-Gov. Sam Bard is here, cn route for New York to buy anew press for the Pen sacola Herald. He endorses the President’s policy and says he don’t Want a post-office either.” Work on the St. Jotins and Lake Fastis Railroad has been suspended for the present, and twenty-seven convicts, who wer'o employed there, passed through Jacksonville lajst week on their way to Live Oak, where they were turned over to Major Wise, of the latter place. Five of the num ber were white men. Tho Jacksonville Sun and Press gives this as a “Florida curiosity/’ and it surely must be a curious dwell ing: “Frank Ross, a former citizen of this place, lias just completed one of the most uniquo dwelling houses on the St. Johns. Tho edifice, so to speak, has a foundation nine feet deep, and the ground floor of tho building is 22x22, running up five stories, and tapering to eight feet sqdnro, when it expands into tt room twelYc'fect square, which is surmount ed by a largo windmill.” Seeing a wagon loaded with goods a few days ago come into town from Bainbridgo we made inquiries and were surprised to learn that some of our merchants, being dissatisfied With the freight tariff on the Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile Railroad, bad determined to have tbeir goods hauled on wagons from some point on the Apalachicola River, and from Bain bridge. This matter should com mand tho attention of Mr. Papy, who, wo have no doubt, will soon make everything satisfactory. —Quincy Her ald. tiIIIEE-SCORE AM) TEN. Threescore and ten ! -the bygone yearn, How rise the memories to my thought; Tho joys and griefs, the hopes ami tears, That till the measure of my lot. Yet these are but the wayside sheaves Wo glean upon the. field of y os- Oblivion, in it* reaping, loaves Bat here and there some scatter’d cars, Perhaps ’tis well we can but glean; For could we harvest all the past, Joys too intense and griefs too keen Were o’er our present being cast. Life’s current duties must he met; And ’tis but glances we can give The darkening jtftst; the game is set, And we niust tor the mastery strive. Gird up thyself, my spirit, (lion. In Him who gives all needful grace j Thou canst, not How afford to spend Thy closing years in idleness. The past thou canst not now regain The shortening future is thine own; To Faith, Hope amf Ltfve attain These spoils from time may still be won. A Word to Girls. Girls, listen to this, and with a virtuous resolve demand as your right a pure love: Young men of bad habits and fnal tendencies never like to marry a girl of their own sort, but demand a wife above suspicion. So pure, sweet wo men kept from tho touch of evil through girlhood, give themselves, with all their costly dower of woman hood, into the keeping of men who, in base association, have learned to undervalue all that belongs to them, and then find no repentance in the sad after years. There is but one way out of this, and that is for you to require in asso ciations and marrages, purity for puri ty, sobriety for sobriety, and honor for honor. There is no reason why the young . men of this land should not be just ias virtuous as young women, and if ! the loss of your society be the price they arc to pay for rice, they will not pay it. This is plain, sensible talk, and just such as ought to be heeded by all our boys and girls, till the much needed reformation is established. Too much of the happiness or misery of onr children depends on this for it to pass without producing deep reflection and action in the right matter in the right direction. Signification of Dreams. To dream of a millstone about your neck is a sign of what ton may expect if you marry an extravagant wife. It is very lucky to dream that you pay for a tiling twice over, since ever afterwards you will always take care to have your bill receipted. For a person in embarrassed cir cumstances to dream that he is ar rested, is very fortunate, for it is a warning to him on no account to ac cept a bill. To dream of fire is a sign that if you are wise you will see that all tho lights iu your house are out before you retire to bed. To dream that your nose is red to the tip, is an intimation that you had better leave brandy for water. When a fashionable young lady dreams of a filbert, it is a sign that her thoughts are running oil a colo nel < If you dreUiri of clothes, it is a warning not to go to law, for, by the rule of contraries, you will be sure of a non-suit. When a young lady dreams of a coffin, it betokens that she should in stantly discontinue tight stays and always go warmly Clad in w r et weather. A Preacher Patch. —Last year a gentleman of this county planted a patch of cotton which he termed his “preacher patch,” the proceeds of which were to go toward tho support of the pastor in charge of his oliurch. It never •suffered a day from drouth and made a fine crop. This year the experiment was repeated, and we have been informed that said “preacher patch” is flourishing, while other crops near by are ruining for want of rain. Moral—Plant a patch for your preacher. —Dawson Journal. It is hardly possible to form an idoa of the ravages of tho famine in India. The loss of life is placed at 300,000, and, instead of decreasing, tho suffer ing pi'omises to increase in intensity. An appeal is to be made to tho people' of England, Scotland and Ireland. The most important lesson of lifo is to know how to bo happy within our selves, When homo is oiir comfort and all in it, even to the dog and cat, shnro onr atfoctions. Do not repine away happiness by thinking that which is good may be better. Straws swim upon the surface, but pearls lie at the bottom. Showy parts strike every common eyo. but solid ones are only to be discovered by the most accurate observers of the human head and human heart. An Irish gentleman, hearing of a friond having a stone coffin made for himself, exclaimed: “By me sowl, an’ that’s a good idee! Shure, an’ a stone coffin ’ud last a man his life time!” Riches cannot purchase mental en dowments. Why the South Remains Poor. Tho great problem of political economy for us of the South is to combine the producing mid tho man ufacturing interests. Sectionalism has almost boon our ruin—wo do not cherish it. Wo wish to soe tho people North and South prospering, but wo can see no prosperity for the South until we learn to produce our food, manufacture our staples and give em ployment to our mechanics. Wo want factories of every kind, but those fac tories must have patronage, and, like charity, this patronage must begin at homo. Wo remain poor because we must have everything from the North We plow out crops with Northern made plows, hitch our teams with Northern made harness, cut our wood with Northern made axes, dress our lumber with Northern mado planes, drive our Northern nails With a Northern made hammer, and paint our houses with a Northern made brush dipped in Northern paint. In short, wo are rooked in Northern made cradles, wrapped in Northern made swaddling clothes, suck our paps made of Northern made corn starch, through a Northern made nipple from a Northern bottle: We are educated from Northern made books, are poisoned with Northern physic, and being gently laid in a Northern coffin, our minister clothed in Northern made clothes, takes our funeral text from a Northern made Bible, and loving hands in Northern made gloves lower us by means of a Northern made rope into a Southern grave, and our last resting place is marked by a tombstone quarried, dressed and carved at the North. This policy is not tho true one. Wo must manufacture and patronize home institutions. Then, and not until then, can we expect to be independ ent of the Northern States. — Agricul tural Journal. A City Under the Hen. A strange discovery is reported from the Lake of Geneva. A tourist hav ing lost his trunk, two divers were employed to search for it. While they were below water they found what they supposed to be a village, since covered by tho lake. Their statements led to an investigation of the spot by the municipal authorities, who took measures to ascertain the truth of the extraordinary account of the divers. On covering the placid surface with oil, these latter were able to distinguish thef plain of a town, streets, squares and detached houses making the lied of the lake. The ruddy line which characterized them led the observers to suppose that the building bad been covered with the famous vermillion cement which was used by tho Colts, Cimbri, and the early Guals. There aro about two hundred houses arranged over an ob long surface, near the middle of which is a space more open, supposed to have been used for public assem blages. At the eastern extremity lies a large square tower, which was taken for a rock. A superficial inves tigation seems to indicate that the construction of these buildings date from somo centuries before our era. The council of Vaud has decided to have the site of the dwellings inclosed by a jetty stretching from the land, and to drain of! the water, so as to bring to light what promises to be one of tho most interesting archaeol ogical discoveries of the present time. --Paris Cur. London Telegraph. The Famine in India* London, Aug. IS— The Times' Bella ry correspondent, writing under date of July 17th, describes the awful effects of the famine in Southern In dia. “A few months ago,” lie says,- “the working gangs contained a fair proportion of stalwart men and wo men on whom tne famine at that time had made no visible mark, but this is no longer tho case. The great bulk of the people are now emaciated, their ribs are sticking out iu painful prominence, and their skins covered with a duty-looking desquamation of the cuticle, described in tho Irish fam ine 181(5-7 by Dr. Donovan as a j ‘peculiar famine eruption.’ If we look at the thousands of people col lected on tho relief works, these fam ine marks aro of almost universal pre valence. The superintendent of the relief operations to Adoui reports that a journey overjonoof his roads resem bled the path of a great battlo in the numbers of the dead and dying. If tho people had been smitten by a lo cal outbreak of cholera in ordinary times, they would have fled from tho works and never returned; but so se vere is the pressure for food that none could afford to leave tho works and lose their pav, even for a single day.” • Queen Victoria’s speech has a i passage on tho Russo-Turkish war. In one place she says that tho neu trality of England will bo preserved as long as the interests of the country remain unaffected; and in another place she says that she will vindicate and maintain tho rights of her empire if in the course of the c'ontost they should he assailed or endangered. In putting these words into tho Queen’s mouth, Disraeli retains for his Goverment tho fullest liberty of action. CnOsiNd the Campaign. —The Czar announces that he will close tho cam paign this year on the line of tho Bal kans. The Sultan expects to close it u the liuu of tho Danube. Real Estate, Etc. 'no r r icu]. FOR SALE, A SPLENDID LITTLE FARR. rpllE PLACE NOW REtNG RUN BY I \Y\ 11. WILSON, just two miles from town, is now offered for sale. It contains one hundred and fifteen (115) acres, about sixty acres cleared find in a high state ot cultivation. The buildings on the place are quite adequate. The place can lie bought cheap. For further particulars ap ply at the aid REPORTER OFFICE. A SPLENDID PLANTATION FOR SALE! IT CONTAINS ABOUT FOUR HUN DRED (io(i) ACRES OF LAND, and lavs directly east of Quitman; about 50 acres inside the incorporate limits of the toWn, and are eligible as town lots.. 125 acres cleared land on the place. Good Gin-house and new Gin, a dwelling house and two negro cabins. The land is good for furmiug purposes, and a bargain can be had by any one who wishes to purchase, by applying to MRS. e. CULPEPPER, 213- Quitman, On. YALUARLE LAND for SALE 1* NOW offer for sale Lot of Land No. 102 . in the 17th district, and south lmlf of Lot No. 310, in the lltli district, all of Lowndes county, Ga, Lot No. 10*2 lafu on the Withlucoochee 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, ana is well timbered. Apply to the undersigned, or to R. Y. Lane, at Valdosta, Ga. JOSEPH TILLMAN, 22G Quitman, Ga. Splendid Fiannitioii —AND COMPLETE OUTFIT FOR SALIO! A splendid PLAN TATIOX in most cnee lint repair, NEW GIN HOUSE, New Horse Power, New Eclipse Serov, New Gin, New Cabins, An Excellent Dwelling House, Good Out-houscs, Corn and Fodder, Mules and Horses, Cows, and other stock, WagoDs and Carts, can be bought cheap by applying to the undersigned. The Plantation contains 526 ACRES OF LAND, and is situated iu as good neighborhood as there is in the State. Schools and churches near by. The lands aregofodand 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 is seven miles southwest from Quitman. Any one desiring such a place would do well to confer with me at once. JOSEPH TILLMAN, 40 Quitman, Ga. $ # $ $ $ HEAD THIS! ONLY ONE~DOLLAR! For one dollar the Savannah Weekly News wilft.be sent, postage paid, to any ad dross for six rtfonths. It is Ctneuif the cheap est papers published, Sud is a welcome visi tor to the count in <_c room, fireside or fttrru.- It is a neatly printed lour-pagc sheet, com* pactly made up, and contains the political and current news of the wi ck; a oompro ln isive summary of the telegraphic, dis patches and local nows, and interesting sketches and stories. It also contains full reports of the markets. Thus, those who have not the Advantage of a daily mail can get the news ictf six mouths by sending one dollar. It is just the imper > for everybody interested jrt Qetifgitt and Florida. It will be' Weil id vested, dud will educate your children rtnd make home hrtpp.Y. Mont y for either pap’cf can bo sent by Post-office order, registered letter or Express, at publisher’s risk. Address J. H. ESTILLr, 211 Saviinftub, Ga. hill Houses anil thoir contents insured in au old veliabl ompany. Terms liberal. t B. T. KINUSBERY, Agt. VOL. IV.—NO. 27. S20,0(>0.00 —Worth of— DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, HOOTS, SHOES, Ac., To bo sold immediately to make room for more goods. Oi 11 FRIENDS IX FOREIGN MAH kvts having heard that \to afe 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 goods for Cash or Produce* VERT CHEAP, Oome N o w! • You will buy at such bargains as you have not thought of. We can assure our frienrl that we are surprised at the prices of many, kinds of goods being daily sent to ns. anil wo moan to sell them accordingly W MEAN BUSINESS, and ’ HUMID No market shall out do 01 7. > BRIGGS, JELKS& CO. Quitman, Ga., April 4, 1877. 214 Use Brooks Comity MANUFACTURING ASSOCIATION ARE RUNNING Their Factory —ON— FULL i IMF, til HE MO‘ST desirable goods, such as ex -1 aetly suit the wants of the people aro made here, and at New York Prices', less the freight to the purchaser. BROWN COTTON GOODS. •1 4 SHEETING- Standard weight. 7-8 SHlßTlNG—Standard weight, 7 and 8 OSNABURGB. ALL COLORS OF STRIPE'S, 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. CSyWOOL. CARDING A SEE* CIALTY. PutrpnUe homo industries. Send bf price list, lied satisfy yourself where it will ho to your interest to buy. Address all communications to Joseph tillman, President 15. C. M. A. PULASKI HOUSE Savununh, Ga JAS. O’CONNELL, - - Proprietor mills favorite HOUSE, witb aCcommoda -1 tious for three hundred guests, has been leased by me for a term of years, and will be opened to the travelling’ public on Tues day, February 13. The Hotel has been thoroughly cleaned and refitted, and is now equal m all its appointments to the best hotels in the United States* The TABLE shall not be surpassed by any other house. Feeling willing to divide the depressed state of the times with the travelling public, J hitfrti made rates to suit the times. My terms will be: 25 rooms at $2.50; 50 rooms at $3.00; 50 rooms at s4*oo per day. By' the week from $12.50 to $21.00, according to’ location and number in a room. JAMES O’CONNELL, 50-51 Proprietor. i not easily earned in these 111 times, but it can be made in tjj 111 three months by any one of * * cither sex, ill uy part of tho country, who is willing to work steadily at the employment that we furnish. s(>(> per week in your own town; you need not bo away from homo over night. Aon can give your whole time to the work, or only your spare moments. Wo have agents tvhO are making over S2O per day. All who engage at once can make money fast. At the pres ent time moixey cannot be made so easily and rapidly at any other business. It Costs nothing to try the business. Terms and $5 outfit free. Address at cncc, H. Hallivtt & 00., Portland. Mu in Of