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VOL. 3. H. H. M’DONALD, O'EiNTIBT, Will be found at lus Office, Room No. 3 White head House, Conyers, Ua., where he is pre pared to do all kinds of work in his line. Fill, ing Teeth made a speciality. rtf’ All work Warrant*! to give Satisl'action.J&y Beiuir thankful for past patronage, he re s[H.'Ctfully solicits a continuance of the same. If'MsZM.U Slomc siLmsirre m jeweler, CONYEHS, CEOKCIA Watches, Clock, and Jewelry of every de scription repaired. All work done neatly, and in order, at lowest prices for cash, and warran ted to give satisfaction. Shop : next door to Post Office. aug231876-ly rnwws * LtgJWBOSB, BUM ani WAGON REPOSITORY, CONYERS, GEORGIA, DEALERS IN AND MANUFACTURERS OF HAND CARTS, WHEELBARROWS, and VEHICLES of all kinds. HARNESS, from the Cheapest to the Dewst, both Eland and Machine Stitch <>d. We keep the best lIINMIDE VIRNBRB. in Use, for CARRIAGES BUGGIES, or one Ilorse WAGONS. Can supply any part of IIARN ESS on short notice. Also, a full stcck of LUMBER in great variety always on hand, for house building purposes. Carpenters and Contractors would do well to see our special wholesale rates. Mouldings, Entices, Stops, Strips, etc., a speciality, and made of any width, thickness, or shape. Window Sash— primed and. glassed—Blinds and Doors, either white or ye'low pine. Also suitable lumber tor Cofflßs. w e always keep in stock Burial cases and Caskets of various sizes and lengths, from infants to adults—all at very low figures. C jftin Hardware generally. With our facilities, we propose to make Coffins of any style, from the plainest to the finest, cheaper than we possibly cou’d by hand alone. Give us a trial and see! PATENT WHEELS. Hubs, Spokes, Rims, Bodies, Seats, Shafts, Poles Dash h raines, Axles, Springs. IR >N in great variety. Screws and Bolts of best make. Patent and Enameled Leather, Enameled C oths, Moss and everyt dug a Trimmer needs. Full stock of best Carriage Paints, Varnishes, Oils, Cohns, Ornaments, and Paints generally. NEW CARRIAGES, BUGGIES and WAGONS always on hand, in great variety, and can make to older any stile or quality desired. Old ones Repaired, Painted and Trimmed at short notice, and at living rates. We buy the beet material, and having suitabl machinery, are able to turn off work with neatness and dispatch. With constant devotion to our Busi ness, 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 Geneious Public. I bank ing you tor your past favors, we will be glad to see you again at our office on Depot Street, near the Geo II R. Respectfully, Downs & Langforp w, /*. lve, m* 9, | : ; i i I DRUGGIST akdAPOTHEOABYI : : Centre Street, CONYJBRS, ::::::: GEORGIA —Dealer in— DRUGS. MEDICINES, CHEMICALS Perfumery and Fancy Toilet articles, PURE WINES & LIQUORS for Medicinal use. Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Ac. Trusses and “houl \£ r ® races - Fresh Garden Seeds. Patent Medicines of all kinds. ®3s"Physician’s Pro scriptions accurately compounded ißis. W^smfcramlra Dirties desiring information as to best routes A to the C-'ntgnnial, or to any Summer Re sorts or to any other point i>' the country Should address B. W. WRENS', General Passenger Agant Kenneaaw Route, Atlanta, Ga. file HircMatc Ifegistetj. OhCE. Oncol ’Tis a little void, with sadlest uiemo ries fraught; It conjures up the past, and wakes a train of thought. It has a solemn tone, it soumbtli like the knell Of all our buried joys -th'ngs loved, per. clmneo, too wi 11. It tells of childhood's days when when all the world seemed fair, Of happy bouyant youth, exultant, froo from care ; If friendship’s snored ties, of love’s most holy light, Of all the bliss that now is sunk in darkest night, Ah me; earth’s flowers must fade, though once so fresh and gay ; E’en in the Summer's prime night steals upon the daj. Green loaves must change and fall, and the shrill Autumn’s blast Throw forth a sad lament o’er Sunni er glories past. Ah me! like flowers of errth, hope’s blossoms fade and die; . The day creams of our youth in the heart’s grave’s must lie. Vision of bygone years, of shattered hopes and joy„, Ye strew our lonely path like childhood’s bro ken toys. [Tinsey’t Magazine. A STRANGE STORY. It was in the autumn of the year 1782 that a sutjgcon in Boulogue of ihe name Etienne Lefebvre received a letter, not bearing any signature, requesting him to repair on the following day to a country house which was situated on the road leading to Calais, and to bring along such instruments as would be required lor performing an operation. Next morning, sure enough, on the stroke of nine, a carriage drove up to his door. The doctor made no hesita tion, but an once took his seat in the car riage. As he was getting in he inquired of the coachman where he was to be taken to ; but the man appeared not to know or did not choose to tell; but, as be spoke in English, Lefebvre said to himself, ‘So it is an Englishman to whom I am summoned,’ and he accord ingly prepared himself for an exhibition ot eccentricity on the part of one of that nation which even now is so little under ,B AkiMsitiW ed futo the house. He was received at the entrance by a fine looking young man of about twenty five years ot age, who requested him to walk into a large and handsome room on the first floor. His aoc-mi showed him to be an Englishman, and he said : ‘Monsieur Lefebvre, pray be seated. 1 have entire confidence in you ; only listen io me. Here is a purse containing one hundred guineas, which I offei you aB a fee for the operation you are asked : to perform, no malt r what the result may be. In case of yon refusing compli ance with my request you see this pistol ? It is loaded and you are in my power. As I hope tor sa.vation, I wdl blow your brains out i ‘sir, 1 am not to be deterred from do ing what l consider proper by any tear of your pistol. But wliai do you desire 1 What am I expected to do!’ •You rous cut my right, leg off-’ ‘Wiili all my heart,’ answered the surgeon, thinking that this was. a char acteristic specimen ot those mad English; ‘and vour hand, also, if necessary or de sirable. However, unless I am great y mistaken, tour leg is perfectly sound. I saw you walk down stairs with the great est activity. What can be the mattei with your leg r ‘Nothing ; but it must come off.’ ‘Well, M. T.efebvre,’ replied the Englishman, taking up the pistol. ‘I win not fire upon you, and yet I will j compel you to cut off this leg. What ! you refuse to do to oblige me, through love of gain or ear of a bullet, jou shall do through humanity.’ ‘How so, sit ?’ ‘I intended to shatter my leg with this pistol, and that, too, before your eyes,’ answered the Englishman, who accord ingly seated himself, cocked the pistol, and then took deliberate aim at his knee joint. Lefebvre rushed forward to prevent him, but the Englishman coolly ex j claimed : | “Do not come near; it you do, I fire. I Now ccolly answer me this question : 1 Do you wish to prolong my suffering ! needlessly V ! you are mad,’ answered ihe doe -1 tor in despair ; nut have youw o* n way _l am ready to do as you wish.' Everything was ready tor the opeia tioll As soon as the doctor look up bis instruments, the Eng ishman lighted his cigar, and declared he would smoke until il>e operation was concluded. He kept his word. The lifeless leg rested upon i the floor, but the Englishman still smok- CONYERS, GA., THURSDAY, NQVKMKr.IT*: 1 ed on. The operation had been per formed in a must masterly manner, and, thanks to Dr. Lefebvres skill and atten tion, the patient soon became perfectly recovered, although, of course, fie had to bo supplied with a wooden leg. lie regarded the -urgeon. whom lie had learned to esteem more and more every day, thanked him witli tears in his eyes for the great obligat’on under which he had laid him, and in a short time started for England. About two months after his patient's departure the surgeon received the fol lowing letter from England: ‘Enclosed you will teceive a token of my boundless gra'itude—a lull of ex change on my backer in Paris for 6,600 francs. You have rendered me the hap. piest of men by ridding me of a limb which was an obstacle n the wav of my happiness. Learn then the reason ot what you termed my madness. Yon assured me trial there could be no justi fiable motive for so singular a mutila tion. I offered you a wager, and I think you were right in refusing it. Alter my second return from the East Indies, I became acquainted with Susan Black, the most accomplished and fascinating of women. I sought her hand in marriage. ■ Her fortune and family were such as met with the entire approbation of my parents. As for me, I thought only of her charms. I was happy enough to gain her affections—a fact whicli she did not attempt to deny ; but she at die same time firmly refused io become my wife. In vain did 1 beseech her to do so; in vain did her relations all second my dec sire. She was inflexible. For a long .itne I could not discover the reason of her opposition to a marriage which she herself confessed would make her happy, until ai last one of her sisters revealed the fatal secret to me. Susan was a mar vel o' beauty, but she was so unfortunate as to have lust a leg, and she had conse quently condemned herself to eternal celioracy. My resolution was quickly formed, and I determined to be like her. Thanks to you, my dear Lefebvre, my wishes were soon accomplished. I re turned with my wooden leg to London. Black. Tilt n oon h.,w k ;: s .~? Miss I myself had taken care to write to my friends in England to the same effect, that I had had the misfortune to fracture my leg, and that amputation had been found absolutely necessary. Every one txprt'SStd ibi* concern nt niy misfortune. Susan fainted on the first occasion of my presenting myself. She was tor a long time inconsolahlt, bin at length she consented to I eeotne mv wife. It was only on the morning alter out marriage that I confessed to her the i sacrifice by means of wb'ch I had at length been enabled to gain her consent to be mine, fii e avowal increased her i love Oil! my excellent friend, had I ten legs to lose I would give them all up tor the sake of my beloved So long as I live rely ou my gratitude. It ever you visi; England do not tail to come here, so that l may make you ac quainted with my wife ; and then tell me whether or not I was out of my senses. | Yours, fnithtullj, Arthur Oxley.’ In the year 1793, during the reign of terror, the surgeon of Boulogne, having been accused ot being an aristocrat by one of his vounger professional brethren, who envied him his practice, was obliged to take leiuge in London in order to save his neck from the guillotine. Being without employment or acquaintances, lie inquired lor the residence of his for mer patient, Mr. Ox my. He was direc ted to it; and on arriv’ng at the house 1 he sent up his name and was immediate ly admitted. In a huge arm-chair, seat ed before the fire, with a bottle of wine beside bin,, sat a portly personage,whose size was so great that it was with diffi culty he could rise to welcome his visi j tor. ‘Welcome, Monsieur Lefebvre,’ j exclaimed the huge Englishman. ‘Do | not be offended at my receiving you in I this manner, but my cursed wooden leg won t allow me to do anything You have come, no douht, my friend, to see if, in the long run yon were not right.’ ‘I am a fugitive seeking an asylum among you.’ ‘You shall stay with me ; for you are really a wise man. You will console me. jDo you know, iny dear Lefebvre, that | bad it not been for this abominable wooden leg rendering me useless I should have been Admiral ot the Blue. I spend niv life in reading the newspapers and m curses that I am tied here when every body .else is U). .and doing. Remain here ; you shall comfort ine.’ ‘Your changing wife can doubtless do (pat better than 1 cm,’ j Qfc, as for that, no. Her wooden lug pivvuiv her from gadding about and dancing ; so she has, as a reoouroe, giv en herself up to cards and scandal. There is no possibility 0 f living alone >vi.h her; in other respects she is a good enough woman. I was an valterable f"ol. If I had my leg hack again I wouM mu part with the paring of a sin gle nail. Between ourselves I must have been crazy ; but keep that to yourself.’ She Wouldn’t Heed. I" the Indies’ waiting room at one of the depots might have been seen, recent ly. two women; one young and hand some, the other old and ugly. Tim v:u rious trains rushed in and rolled out, the lasi passenger tram for some hours had departed, but still they sat, these two women. The day faded into the night. The lamps were lighted. The agent went home, and the many laborers went home. Minutes dragged slowly by, and hours seemed to crawl. The silence was un broken in the room. Every few mo-■ ineiits woulit the young womati look up at the clock. Finally the old woman broke the silence. fGoin’ away ?’ Out* remark led to another, until they were chatting quite confidentially. Tha oul woman said she was going o ‘iJelii— cagey,’ and told many things. Ihe young woman, in turn, became commu nicative, and said her lover was coming in on the midnight train, and that she was going with him to the uext station to be married. ‘Been engaged long ?’ ‘Three years.’ ‘Your lover m business V ‘Yes ’ ‘Railroader ?’ ‘No,’ ‘Well, I’m glad on it. Never marry a railroader. Is he a soldier ?’ ‘No.’ ‘Well, I’m glad on it. Never marry a soldier, ~otel-keeper ?’ ‘No,’ ‘Well, I’m glad on it. Never marry a hotelkeeper. Travlin’ man?’ ‘No.’ ravfTTfi man. 3ioa'U"'m.v’. ‘No’ ‘Well, I’m glad on it. Never marry a sieamboater. Dry goods man? ‘No’ ‘Wei’, I’m glad ou it. Never marry a counter jumper. Grocery man ?’ ‘No.’ “ ‘Well. I’m glad on it. Never marry a peanut vender.’ ‘Who would you marry?' asked the young woman. ‘VVe'l chi'd, never marry a railroader, I for he is llabl • to he killed any time, i Besides, his gorgeous clothes attract the attention of the women. ‘Never marry a hotel keeper. My j firs! husband was a hotel-keeper, and fell through the elevator opening and broke his darned skull. It riles me when I think ol that man. ‘Never marry a traveling man, for he is always from hum. Nobody knows what these men are up to when they're away from hum. ‘Never marry a steamboater. My second husband was a steamooat cantain, and got blown iuto 4 OUO 000 pieces, blast him. I always git terrible mad when 1 think ot that man. ‘Never marry a dry goods man. Dyes in clothes is so injurious. They never live half their days. ‘Never marry a grocer. They have such dirty bauds. My third husband was-a grocer and such hands as he’d have was ’nut to sicken a body. He was killed by a molasses barrel failin’ on him. When I think of him I’m com pletely disgusted, ‘Never marry a carpenter. My fourth husband was a carpenter, and fell off a scaffold and was mashed into a jelly, May liis aoul seep in peace! ‘Never many a machinist. My fifih husband was a machinist. I’ll never forget the day when he was brought hum on a board. I didn’t recognize him. A belt had come off a pulley and hi: him plum in iie lace, and spread his nose all over his countenance. I prom ised him on his dyin' bed that I'd never marry another machinist. Just then the train rolled in, and the old lady asked : ‘Child, what business is you lover in J? ‘lnsurance busiuesfl.’ i ‘O, mercy ! You don’t mean to marry him, I My sixth husband was an insu , rau.ee— ’ But the young woman had gone to 1 meet *er lover. IHe Didn’t Like to Tell Before Folks. A horney. handed phrenologist in :f West End, grocery of Madison, V/is., the other evening placed his hand on a friend's head and said : ‘Bill, do yon want io know your ca pacity and pereeptiblenesaT’ ‘Yes, if I’ve got any.’ was the r ply. ‘Well, then,’ continued the phren ou ght, ‘I p'ace the lip of mv thumb above; fie centre of the e.n—thus. Thin 1 extend my fing .rs round the poster! r portion, called in phiendlogy, oxv-pot ; then T join the lips of tlv Angus t'l.oth hands and endeavor to bring the thumb tips together, but the ihumhs don't in ■ t by —great goodness!’ At this point the phreno’ngist look' and puzzled, and looked up to die ceiling reflectively and g-avely. ‘Out with it; I am prepared to h< ar the worst,’ said Bill. But the phrenologist said he’d have to tell him ntivutely, and look him out and up the street till near a saloon door, when ho paused and whispered in bill’s ear: ‘You've got a powerful biain, a pow erful intellect, and orto bo in Congress stead of using a hammer.’ Bill dragged his friend into the saloon and called for the ‘lies!, in >he house ' They drank, and Bill asked : •Why didn’t yon tell me in the pres ence of those men in the grocery ?’ ‘Because,’ said the phrenologist, ‘I knew they’d cal! me a darned tool!’ A Miser 0 utwit ed. It was observed that a certain covetous rich man never invited any one to dine with him. ‘l’ll lay a wager,’ said a wag, 'I get an invitation from him.' Ihe wager being accepted, he goes the next day to the rich mans' botuk, about the time he was known ‘o sit down to dinner, and tells the si want that he must then speak with Ir’s master, for that he could save him a thousand pounds. ‘Sir,’ said the servant to his master, ‘lieie is a man in a great hurry wishing yntl li tlTGummt y— — Out came ihe master — ‘What is that you say, sir—that you can save me a thousand pounds?’ ‘Yes, s'i, 1 can—.but I see you are at dinner; I will go myself and dine, anil call again.’ ‘Ob, pray, sir, coine in and take din ner with me.’ ‘Sir,l shid be troublesome.’ ‘Not at all.’ The invitation was accepted. As soon as dinner was over.— ‘Well, sir,’ said the man of the house, ‘now to oar busines . Pray let me know bow I am to save a thousand pounds.’ ‘W by, sir,’ said the oilier. ‘1 hear you have a daughter to dispose of in mar riage.’ . ‘I have.’ “And that you intend to portion her with ten thousand pounds,” “I do so.” “Why, then, sir, lot me have her, and I will take her with nine thousand.’ The master o' the house rose in a passion, and turned him out of doors in a hurry. This is what a negro field hand said a Democratic meeting in South Carolina: “My colored friends, we have n> labor hard every day to get bread for nu litth children; we have to gobatefm ted ed 11 our shirtslei ves. I went to Id efie <l, the Other day. and went into Lawrence Cain’s palace, and I saw a mm*.re for his baby that cost sH>n nNew Yo-k. and be had a white girl to roll it. When his wife walked across the fl-or, she was dressed so fine you could hear her ‘rat Ring’ a limited yards. “There is no such things as party now it is honesty butting rascality, and I tell you rascality has got to get oat of the way. 1 have been votthg for the Rndi crl party for the last ter. yens and. wh'le folks, I\\ ill tell you why I did it; These hete carpet-baggers and scalawags came around and told me to give them office, and they would tax you so that you’d have to sell your land, and then we could buy it. I thought it would be mighty nice to have a big plantation, and I voted for them and t Id them to stick or, the lax, Tltey stuck on the tax ; they got land, fine horses, fine clothes and plenty <>f money, hut I have never got anything from them yet. ’ Cross-eyed man lif's an ax to kill a cow. Fi.teench amendment holding bo-' vine. “Sav, bos, hit whar you look V “Yes—’ “'Veil, you jit? hole dig cow yureelf.’ F. B. PHINIZY, Succ"Bi)or_tu C. H. Pl.iuiey A Cos. €QTTQN Fd:€T(m, AUGUSTA, - - - - GEORG’, o • Liber til Acvmii'n uu*de on Contiynmentt* aug‘23 3m ..THE National Hotel, ATLANTA, - - - GEORGIA. Phe rati's of laardihA KAat this J ojular I hotel have t*eenN/ ’ll I reduced to $2.60 per tiny. For this'’ nJiOyf p r j oe offer ac commodations o and lave unsurpassed by any three or four dollar house iu the South. Come and get nn old Virginia welcome. LEE & HEWITT, ProPRIK.TOHS. Probably there is no complaint that afflicts the human system, which is so little under : food at the present time, as some of the va iged forms of Kidney Complaints. There Is no disease which causes such acuto pain or more alarming in its results than|when the kidneys fall to secret.' the blood from the uric aeid, and other poisonous sub stances. which the Wood accumulates in its circulation through the system. If from any cause the kidneys fail to per form the functions devolving upon them, tho cumulations are taken up by the absorbents and the whole system thrown into a state of disease, causing grant pain and suffering, and very often immediate death. Jieuce the im portance of keeping tho kidneys and blood in a healthy condition, through which all the im purities of tho body must pass. PA BN IN THE BACK. There is no remedy known to medioal sci ence which bus proved itself more valuable in cases of Kidney Complaints than the Vegetiue. It acts directly upon the secretions, cleanses and purifies the blood, and restores tho whole system to healthy aolion. The following extraordinary cure of great sufferers, who had been given up by the best physicians as 1 opeless eases, will speak for themselves, aad should challenge the most pro found attei tiou of the medics! faculty, as well as of those who are suffering from Kidney Com plaint. HE BEST MEDICINE. East Marshfield, Aug. 22, 1870. Mb. Stevens; Dear Sir—l am seven I y-uiin years of ago ; have suffered many years with Kidney Comp aint, weakness in my hack and stomach. I was Induced by friends to try and never found so mfffcfrt&rfcthnr V KOSTIN*. It strengthens and iu via ora u the whole system. Many of my acquaintan ces have taken it. and 1 believe it to bo good for all the complaints for which it is recom mended Your truly, JOSIAII 11. SHERMAN. Boston, May 30, ;1871. PRONOUNCED INCURABLE 11. K. Stevens, Eq•: Dear Sir—l havo bte badly afflicted with Kidney Complaint for ten years ; liai o great pain in my back, hips and side, with great difitulty in passing urine, which was often, and in very small quantities, frequently accompanied with nlood and exem tiatlng pain. J Lave faithfully trid most of the popular remedies recommended for my complaint; I have been under the treatment of a mo of the most skillful physicians in Boston, all of whom pronounced iny case ii cm able. This was my condition when I was advised by a friend t<> try the Vkuitink, and I could see tho good effects from the ffrst dose I took, and from that moment I kept on improving until I was i entirely cured, airing in all, I should think, I about six bottles. It is indeed a valuable medieino anil if I should be afflicted again in tho same way, 1 would give a dollar a dose, if I could not get it without. Respectfully, J, M. GHEE. 361 Third Street, South Boston. NEARLY BLIND. 11. R. Stevens; Dear Sir—ln expressing my thanks to you for benefits dei ived from the use of VeOetine, aud to benefit others, I will stato; — When eight or nine years cld I was afflicted with Scrofula, which made its appearance in my eyes, face and head, md I was very near hiind* for two years. All kindt of oppositions were performed on my mes, and all to no good rosnl f Finally tho disease principally settled in my body, limbs and fc t, and at times in un aggravated way. Last Summer I was, from some cause, weak in my spine and kidneys, and it was at times very hard to l et“in ihe urine. Seeing your advertisement in tli Commercial, I bought a bottle of VEUKTINE, and commenced using according to directions. In two or tiiree days I obtained , rent relief. After using four or five bottles I noticed it had a wonderful effect l on the rough scaly blotches on my body and I legs. I still used V-eoktinb and the hurnor | ~U H sores one after another disappeared until they were all gone, and I attribute the cure of the two diseases to Veoetink, and nothing ' If lam ever effected woh anything of the '. kind again I shall try Vk tine, as the only peliable remedy. Oncmnoroaccept my thanks, and believe me to be, Very respectfully, AUSTIN PARROTT. Dec. 1, 1872. No. 3J>Gano St., Cincinnati,Ohio Diseases of the Kidneys, Bladder, etc., are always unpleasant, and at times they become t.he most distressing and dangerous diseases that, can affect the human system. Most di seases of the Kidneys arise from impurities in the blood, causing humors which settle on those parts. VuaP,?INK excels any known e iy in the wholo world for cleansing and puri.ying tlio blood, thereby causing a healthy action to all the ft. cans of the body. se37lm Vegeilne is M tor all Urn Mists. . crents. If you want the best selling article A in the world nnd solid gold patent lever watch, free of cost, write 1 1 once to J. BrideA Cos„ 767 Broadway, N. Y. tw g7o a day 8t borne. Agents wanted. Out dtad terms free. Turns & Cos., Augusta,- Maine. trc!3-ll NO. 17.