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Youdoo Negroes Dig for Robbers Treasure. (excerpt from an August 1884 newspaper article) - Starrsville, Ga. - In June of this year, a negro came from Montgomery, Alabama to work as a day laborer on the plantation of John Dukes about 9 miles south of Covington.  He soon made it known that he had been directed to this place by a spirit to find seventeen and a half bushels of gold that had been buried by a band of robbers about 70 years prior.  He located what he believed was the place on a branch about 100 yards below the Covington and Monticello Road, about 10 miles from Covington.  He promised the owner of the land one-fourth of the gold, and also a liberal share to any negroes who would assist.  After much praying, incantations, and ceremony, he located what he thought was the precise spot.  No one was to speak or chew tobacco or stop work, and nearby he placed an open Bible with a rock on it to hold the pages open beneath which several horseshoes were placed.  At last report, they dug to six feet deep without locating the gold, the faith of the Youdoo doctor seeming to blind them to the fact that they might have the wrong spot.  There has been no report of any gold ever being found as of yet in this vicinity.