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VOL. 3. WittMOM Bttomo SILVERSMITH nj JEWELER, CONYEttS, CKORQIA M ilobi'Hi Clock, and Jowtlry of every de scription repaired. All work done neatly, and io order, at lowest prices for cash, and warran ted t (five satisfaction. Shop : next door to Post Office. aug231876-ly H. H. M’DONALD, DETCTTIBT. Will be found ai hig Office, Room No. 3 White head House, Conyers, Oa„ where he is pre pared to do all kinds of work in his line. Fill ing Teeth made a speciality. All work Warranted to give Being thankful for past patronage, he re spectfully solicits a continuance of the same. F. B. PHINIZYi Successor to C. H. Phinizy & C, €@TWm Fs§crm t AUUtfsTA, .... GEORGIA. Liberal Acvances made on Coniignmentii atig23 3m J QWJVS * I+AWQFOmt, BOGGY aid WAGON BEPOSITOBY, CONYERS, GEORGIA, dkai.krs in and manufacturers of HAND CARTS, WHEELBARROWS, and VEHICLES of all kinds. HARNESS, from the Cheapest to the Dearest, both Hand anu Machine Stitch td. We Keep the best IHM.IDB HARNESS. lit Use, f o f CARRIAGES BUGGIES, or one Horse WAGONS Can sup) ly any part of HARNESS on short notice. Also, a lull slock of LUMBER in great variety always on hand, for house building purposes. Carpenters and Contractors Would do well to see our speetdt wholti&le rates. Mouldings, Latices, Stops, Strips, etc., a speciality, and made of any width, thickness, or shape. Window Sash— primed and glassed-—Blinds and Doors, either white or yellow pine. Also suitable lumber for Coffins. We always keep in stock Burial cases and Caskets of various sizes and lengths, from infants to adults—all at very low figures. Coffin Hardware generally. With our facilities, we propose to make Coffins of any style, from the plainest to the finest, cheaper than we possibly could by hand alone. Givens a trial and tee! PATENT WHEELS. Hubs, Spokes, Rims, Bodies, Seats, Shafts, Poles Dash Frames, Axles, Springs. IRON in great variety. Screws and Bolts of best make. Patent and Enameled Leather, Enameled Cloths, Moss and everything a Trimmer needs. Full slock of best Carriage Paints, Varnishes, Oils, Colors, Ornaments, and Paints generally. NEW CARRIAGES, BUGGIES and WAGONS always on hand, in great variety, and can make to order any style or quality desired. Old ones Repaired, Painted and Trimmed at short notice, and at living rates. We buy the best material, and having suitable machinery, are able to turn off work with neatness and dispatch. With constant devotion to our Busi t>ess, Honest Dealings with our Custom ers,Experienced Faithful Mechanics, and the manufacture of Reliable Goods in rour line, we hope to merit a liberal pat ronage from a Generous Public. Thank ing yon tor your past favors, we will be glad to see you again at our office on Bepot Street, near the Geo II It. Respectfully, Downs A Lanofokd THE National Hotel, ATLANTA, - - - GEORGIA. The rates of boardAA K Aat this popular hotel have been\ / illlreduced to $2.60 per day. For "price offer ac commodations and fare unsurpassed by any three or four dollar house in the South, t-'ome and ge‘ ar old Virginia welcome. LEE & HEWITT, Proprietors. ISIS. TOE GREAT CEHTOMAL. 1816 0 Parties desiring information as to best Toutes to the Centennial, or to any Sommer Re— Eorts ortoany other point in the country •nonlct address B. W. WEENN, ?neral Passenger Agent Kennesaw Route, Atlanta, Ga m fmWk Milti. ) The verses below were wiitteu by Mr • Ringgold MoCay, a boy who was born and raised in Covington, but who has been making bis home in New York. They are worthy a place in any scrap book in the laud The “Mohawk.” Fast the gorgeous sun was sinking To his palace in the West, While his fodiug light grew fainter On the ocean’s tranquil breast : Scarce a cloud was seen to hovor Far across the distant seas, When the Mohawk, weighing anchor, Flung her canvass to the breeze. As each youth with knightly bearing Stepped Upon the polished deck. Little thought he that at twilight She Bhould drift a stra ndod wreck. Little thought each graceful lady, As she rocked upon the waves, That within the Mohawk’ cabin Some that night should find their graves. Proudly stood her genial master, Welcoming each happy guest, While no thought or tear of danger On his gallant spirit pressed ; Put that dark and 11 ystic spirit, Sleeping in the storm-clouds lair. Caught the echoes of their laughter Borne upon the evening air. Rousing from her transient slumber, Swift she winged her desperate flight Silently along the waters That rich argosy to smite. As she struck the vessel shuddered, Far careening lo the lee, And without a moments warning Sank into the treacherous sea. Then a fearful cry of anguish Pierced that loving husband’s ear; With the ship his wife was sinking, And no saving hand was near, But this soul divinely human Rose to its majestic state, And he sprang below to save her. Or to share her cruel fate. There he’d garnered up the treasures Of his grand and noble heart. And in this dread hour of danger Dated e’en death their souls to part. He alone has all the glory. Purchased at so great a price; * But ’tis ours to read the story And applaud the sacrifice. We render thanks to Thee, O Saviour, That we were allowed to see Human nature act so bravely— Dying there so much like Thee. We thank Thee that the tile celestial Has not died in human souls, And that ihine own blessed spirit Still humanity controls. Kinooold UcCay. How to Judge a Town. The Jefferson City (Mo.) Journal tells this ) About and week ago a gentleman from Tennessee, representing a capital of $20,- 000, in search of a location in which to engage in business, gave us a call, ami after staring bis mission ‘West,’ asked, to look at our paper. We banded him the morning Journal. To our surprise he did not stop to read our newsy looal ‘pick ups,’ of ottr attractive editorial page, but turned at once to our ad veil is intr columns and commenced conning over Llit. ir space. “.Veil,’said lie, glancing (ip from Ihe paper, “is that all t Is that the business of this town T ‘Oh, no,' said we, ‘here Is the j tribune with a lew advertisements that do not appear in the Journal.' He then counted two additional local business advertisements in the 1 ribune, and again looked Up with the remark: ‘And that’s all, is it ? Why, you haven’t got near as much of a town here as I thought you had.’ And theu we explained to him that we have a great many business men who do not advertise. ‘They are not business men to hurt if they do not advertise,’ was his answer. We could not contradict him, and we were powerless to vindicate the ‘claims of the city.’ He left us saying that if he had time he would look around, but thought this was uo place for bnn. This is one instance, and a tact. The Savannah News states that a man under the influence of liquor caught a boy and beat him umuerciluliy. l'he boy escaped, but the drunken beast sli ced a broom and commenced sti iking at a tree, supposing the boy to be behind it. Discovering bis mistake he pulled of Ins hat and shoes, and coat and commenced climbing the tree, crying, “Oh, you young rascal, when I send you tor any thing again, I guess you will come back soon.” A passer by caught him as he reached the first limb, and calling a po. liceman turned him over to him. He would Lave been taken to tbe barracks, but it was discovered that bis wife was lying dead at her home. An immense snake of the constrictor variety is committing ravages in Harden county, lowa. It has killed Beveu horses and five call If. Two hundred armed men have been searching tor the reptile two days. One party came id sight and report that it is thirty feet long. San Francisco has a strong man who, wita 400 pounds on his back, 4UO on Ins i r „ as * atW pound bar on his ue-cx, and a man’ on each end of the bar, dances, wearing shoes that weigh <5 pouuds. CONYERS, GA-, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER *l, IS7. TERRIBLE TURKISH ATROCITIES. The Remains of a Poor Pridat— Men and Boys Tortured iyid Maltreated How Women and Girls Suffered - Little Babies Carried on the Points of Bayo nets—Crimes Committed Too Foul to be Named. Mr. MacGuhm writes from Bulgiria to the London News as follows: ‘‘When we were in Pnnagnrinbli we were shown in the mines of the cburoii, belore which bad slood the alter, a hi ck spot spbeked with calcined bouos, on which lay a priest, Theodor Feoff, eighty-five years of age, who had been seized and tortured in the hopes of obtaining money, muli. lated and maltreated in wavs which only the foul imagination of a I'urk could in vent, them killed and burned here ha fore the altar. In another place we were shown an old blind man, Doud’B Stregleyoff, who was beaten half to death and thrown senseless on a heap of wood and burned alive. There was au old man here, Zwatko Boyardjiefi by name, a public benefactor, a liberal contributor to the school fund, who in Winter supported halt the wid ows and orphans of the place, who was renowned for his chanties to Christian and Turk alike. He was likewise seized tortured and maltreated. His eyes were put out, and, after undergoing the most fearful torments, he was thrown on a heap of wood fainting or dead, the peo ple do not know which, and burned. They seized the priest Nuator and cut off his fingers one by one to extort mo ney, and as the poor man had none to give them they continued by cutting off his hands, finally his head. We were shown in (he yard of a neat little cottage, embowered in trees, a grave beside which a woman was kneeiiug as we passed. It was the grave of a young man of eighteen, who had just returned home from school when the troubles he. gan, after an absence et two years, and who had taken no part in the outbreak. They had seized bi n and in mere sport cut otV his hands one by one in the pres ence ot his mother, then > kilted lvi.ro. What makes these acts naore terrible was that many of them were committed imho presence of the weeping relatives— wile, mothers, sisteis of the relatives. And they were repealed by the hundred# It would take a volunme to tell all the stories that were related to us. But it was not only old anti young men who Buttered —women, young girls, children, infants, were ruthlessly slaughtered. These Turks have no pity, no compas sion, no Bowels. They have not even the generosity, the pity of wild beasts, Even the tiger wilt not slay the young of its own species, But these l urks— these strong bearded men—picked in tauts up out of their cradles with their hayouets, tossed them in the air, caught them again and flung them at the heads o! the shrieking mothers. T hey earned lilLle babes about tiie streets on the | points ot their bayonets, with tiie poor little heads and arms droopitfg around the barrels of their guns, and the blood streaming down over then - bauds. They cut oft the heads of children and compelled other children to carry the still bleeding heads about in their anils. 1 would have the leader remember that 1 am re ating laets that nave been coldly and concisely n lied down in my presence by Mr. Schuyler; la is Dial will appear in his report; tacts mat were told him by peop-e who wept and moan ed and wrung their bauds, and lairly tore their hair, at the bare remem brance ot the scenes they were relating# Huiulruils of woineu came to us re counting wlial the) hail seeii and wliai they had suffered. Noi a woman in the place stems to have escaped outrage. They all confess it opemy. In other places where these things occurred the women have shown a hesitation lu speak. Iu some cases they denied that they had been out) aged, and wc alter wards earn ed teey conlesscd to others that they had been. At Avrat-Alan a delegation of ladies called upon Mr. Schuyler to make their complaints, and he was somewhat astonished to find that they had very little to say. Upon going away, how ever, they left him a letter, signed by them all, saying that scarcely a woman in the place bud escaped outrage. They conld not bring themselves to tell him viva voce, but thinking that as lie was investigauhg her in an official capacity he ought to know, they had decided lo write lo him Here, however, they did not jhesitaie to speak out. Outrages were committed so publicly, so getieraly that they feel it would be useless to try to hide their sham’-, and they a*ow it openly. These acts were committed not i only in tbe houses, but in tbe streets, • in the yards, in the courts; for the Turks have net eren-llie .decency which mav accompany vie?. They have not even the modesty ot rileness; they have not cvm the shame of nature. Mothers were outraged in the presence of their danght. r*; young girls in the pr sence of their mothers, of their sisles and broth cs. Out* woman told us, wringing her hands and crying, that herself and her daughter, a girl of fifteen, had been vi olated in the same room. Another, that she was violated in the presence of her children. A girl eighteen avowed shudering and bowing her face in her hands, that she had been outraged by ten soldiers. A woman, who came to us on crutches with a bullet still in her ankle, said she had been violated by three soldiers while lying wounded ou the ground.groaning in agony. Young delicate fragile little creatures, ten and twelve years old, were treated in the same brutal manner, A woman told us that her daughter, a tender, delicate little thing of twelve, had been outraged by a Bashi-Bozcmk, although she had offered all the money she had in the world, although she offered herself If Ire would spare tne child. Another told us of a poor little thing ot ten violated in her presence, with a number of other girls. Still another told us hoiv a dozen young girls, twelve or fifteen years old, had taken refuge in her house, hoping to escape detection; how they had oet-n outraged and killed, because s they had resisted, and lfow the others then sub mitted to their fate, white, shivering their teeth chattering with fright. * It I tell what I have seen and heard it is because I want the people of England I to understand what these Turks are, ami if we are to go on bolstering up this tot tering despotism; if we are to go on carrying ibis loathsome, vice-striken 1 caper about ou our shoulders, let us do it with open eyes and a knowledge of the facts } let us s?e the hideous things we are carrying. Mr. Schuyler obtained ample evidence ot other ei im-s too foul to he even named. There are crimes that repel investigation, lint avoid the ; (Inßy \tkvj vi\e, crt*?|Vrsc, loathsome tilings found under carrion or in the lowest depths of sewers, cling to the dark holts and co’ners and escape inspection. Mr. Schuyler has explored these dark depths to the bottom, with the coolness of a surgeon probing a foul and fesieiing nice". But Ido not think lie will he able to state the facts in his report. They are without the pale of the English language, and fo.t ray part I shall not again refer to them.” Don’t be too Sensitive. There ar ■ many people alwavs looking out for slights. They cannot carry on the daily inteicourse of the family with out fi< dins' that some offense is designed. They are as touchy as hair-triggers. If ihey meet an acquaintance who happem to be preoccupied with business, they a.tribute bis abstraction in some matter persona, to themselves and take umbrage accordingly. They lay on others the fruit of their irritability. Indigestion make' them sec impertinence in every one they come in contact with. Inno cent persons who never dreamed of giv ing offense, are astonished to find some nnfottuncte word, or momentary taci turnity, n intake!) tor an insult. To say the le. st, the habit is unfortunate. It is far wiser to take the more charitable view ct our fellow beings, and not stip poH- ihal a slight is intended unless the neglect is open and direct. Alter all, too, life takes its hues in a great degree from the color ot our own minds. If we are f-ank and generous, the world treats us kindly ; it on the contrary we ale suspicions, men learn to be cold and cautious towards us.—Let a person gt tdie reputation of bt ing ‘touchy,’ and ev erybody is under restraint; and in this way the chances ot an imaginary offense ,nincreased. A Suggestion. A well-to-do citin' n of Detroit almost had the t.reat.h knocked out of In in by the request of a ragged side-walk tramp, w ho stopped him and asked : ‘Say, can’i yu lend me ten dollars?’ ‘Whai ! Who are you sir! No, s;r, I can’t sir!' exclaimed the. citizen ‘Couldn’t possibly do it, eh ?’ ‘No, sir.’ ‘Ted you what you might do,’ sugges ted the 'ramp. You might hand me fif teen cents n >w and 1 nd me tho balance when times gft a iittie easier.’ ‘I can’t lend you a shilling, sir, or a cent, sfr, and I won’t give you a penny sir.’ ‘Sony both of us htnpened to be hard up at once, sighed the tramp, and ne continued his walk.— Detroit Free rre^t. English Opinion of Gov. Tildcn. The London Standard, speaking of this country and the two candidates for President, says • "Mr. Tilden promises the South relief lorn imsgttvernffietil and the protection of the rights ot both races. There is more hope for both par ties in the government of the conservn.. tives, who ate anxious to maintain peace in the interest of tho whites, than in that of'he Republicans, whose object is to use the negro, through race collisions, as a means ot forwarding their faction’s purposes. And we believe that the tem per showu in South Carolina is hut the last outbreak of a fueling natural enough but gradually disappearing. Good gov ernment iu tho South is on’y possible under a Democratic administration. * * At present tho hope of a sober, states manlike, gtadnal pm ideation of the country from the stain of tyranny in the South, of Inconvertible paper monev and official corruption throughout the Union, rests oti the success cf Mr. Tilden. And therefore# all other considerations apart, we sincerely wish that lie may .he elec ted#” Newspaper Patronage. There seems lo bu a great many dii— fereiit ways of defining and understand ing the pi rase ‘newspaper patronage,' and, as a party interested in a correct definition ot the same, we give the fol lowing disquisition on the subject by one who knows whereof he speaks. It may serve, perhaps, as a mirror, ifl which cer tain parties may he able to.seetlielnseltes as others see them : Many long and dreary years in tiie publish'd" business lias forced tho con viction upon im that newspaper patron age is a word of many definitions, and that a great majority of mankind are either ignorant of the correct definition, or are dishonest in a strict, bib'ion! sense of the word. Ne wspaper patronage has as many colors as the rainbow, and is as changeable as a chameleon. One man comes iu, subscibes ior a paper, pays for #t in advance, and goes home and reads it with a proud satisfac tion that it is Uis. lie hands in ail ad vertisement, and reaps the advantages thereof. Tin's is patronage. Another man asks you to send him 'he paper, and goes off without saying a word about the pay. Time flies on ; you are in need of money, and ask him to pay the sum he owes you. He flies into i passion, perhaps pays, perhaps not, and orders his paper stopped. This is called patronage. One man brings in a fifty cent adver tisement and wants a two dollar puff thrown in, and when yon decline, he goes off inad. Even this is called pat ronage. One aaan don’t take your paper. It is too high priced j but he borrows and reads it regularly.’ And that could be called newspaper patronage. One man likes your paper ) lie takes a copy, pays for it, and gets his friends to do tbe same ; lie is not always grumb 'ing to you or to others, but has a friend ly word. If an accident occurs in Is sjction he informs the editoi. This is newspaper patronage. One hands you a marriage or other nonce, and asks lor extra copies con taming it ; and when you ask him for pay for the papers he looks surprised : ‘You surely don’t take any pay for such small matters?’ This is called newspa per patronage. One (it is good to see such) comes in and says: ‘This year for which I paid is about to expire ; I want to pay for another,’ lie does so and retires. This is newspaper patronage. It will be seen fiom the above that while certain kinds of patronage are the life ot the newspaper, there are other kinds more fatal to its health an 1 circu lation than the coils ol a boa constrictor are to the Uckless prey he patronizes. A Frenchman in Franklin county, Ohio, is in his 125th year. He was mu - ned in 1772, was once a prisoner < f Eibar. Alien, fought for Scoit atLuody's Lane, and has never voted. A Rochester man and wife aie each 7 feet inches in height, and weigh re spectively 478 and 413 pounds. Always bond to follow suit—Your tat - or'a bill. “How d’you do, aunt Mai ia?’ said a Goorgia matron to au aged colored lady. •I aim ver aunt, miss ss, tin’ I aint yer uncle : I’se yer ekal!’ Joftily replied the aged female. ‘lf Jones undertakes to pull my ears,| said a loud mouthed fellow ou . a street corner, ‘he'll just have his hands full, now.’ Tbe crowd looked at tbe man's ears and thought so too. WlxatisVegetiae? It is a compound Jfrxtrartod from I,arks# roots nod herbs. It is NatW# Remedy It im perfectly harmless from any Mei effect upon the system. It imurshin* und t rcngtliin* It acts directly upon the Mood. It , |U i el , nervous system. It gives you good# weet sleep at night, tt is a panacea or our aged father* atid iu others, ior it gives them strength, quiets their nerves, and gives them Nature’s iwset sleep, as lias been proved by many ag,<d per son. It is the great Blood purifier. It is a sookbMio rom *ly for our chiMMk It ha# re lieved and cured thousands, It is very pleasant to take |; every child likes it. It relieves sod euros all disease's originating from impure Wood. Iry the VEDITINK. (iiye it a fair trial forty our complaints; then you will say to vow friend, neighbor and ncqnaintwnt, “Try it; it has cured iue.” 7 RELIABLE EVIDENCE# ii l h ® fo '! o * ,a 1 ? unsolicited testimonial from Hey. 0.1. Walker, fo.-iherly paster of Bowdo/rt . qun.ro Church Boston, ami at. present settled in I rovidoneo, H. L., must be deemed as relia ble oviduee. No one should fast to observe 1 ia t this testimonial is the restilt of two years’ experience with the use of VEUETINE in the’ Rev. Mr. Walker's family, who now pronoun-* it invaluable: >r R ’ L ’ 101 Tbansit Stbxct. H. R. TSEVENS, Esq.: I feel bound to oxpro s with my signature Uh* high value I place upon your V&UiTINK. M.y family have Used it for the labt two ream. In nervouH debility it \h invaluable, and I roo ommend it to all who may need on invigora ting, renovating tonic. O. T. WALKER Formerly Pastor of Bowdbin Square Church Boston. TIIE BEST EVIDENCE. Th- following letter from Rev E S Best, Pastor of the M E Church. Natick,’Mass., will lie read with interest by many physicians; also those suffering f otn the same disease as-afflie tod the sou of thu Rev E S Beat. No parson can doubt this testimony, aa there is no doubt aboiit the curative power of VEGETINE. „ „. r Natick, Mass., Jan. 15t,1H73. MR H ft STEVENS: I'edr S'if AYe have ;rbP<? refltsons for "rtr garding your VEGETINE a medicine of thb greatest value. \1 e feel assured that it has been tho means of sating our son's Ufa. He is now seventeen years of age ; for the last two years ho has suffered from necrosis of his leg. caused by scrofulous affection, and was so far reduced that nearly all who saw him ih eight his recovery impossible. A council of abfe physicians could give us number decW.ng that he was beyond the reach os human rem edies, th(t oven amputation could not save? him aH he had not. vigor enough to endure tho operation. Just then wo commenced Igiving him VEGETINE and from that time to the present he has been continuously improving. Ito has lately resumed studios, thrown away bis crutches and cane, and walks about cheer fully ami strong. Though I here is still some discharge from the opening whoro his limb Was lanced, mm have tho fu lest confidence that in a littletime he will he jiorfecily cured. He has tukeu about three doxon bottle* of VEGETINE, but lately usos but little, ns ho declares he is too well to bo taking medicine. Reipeofully yours augt'Mm E. 8. BEST, Mkb. L. (J. F. BE'T. Prepared bjr 11. R. STEVENS, Boston, Mass. VJUGET’UsTE IS SOI.D BY ALL DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS. Everywliere. 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