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VOL. 3. H. H. M'OQNALO, DI3NTI.3T* Will be found at bit Office, Boom No. 3 White h,-ad House, Conyers. Ga.. where he is pre to do all kinds of work in his line. Pill, in./ Tenth made a speciality. rSTMI work Warrant*! to give SafisfaefionjJPf thankful for past patronage, he re sentfully solicits a continuance of the same. Wrj,LMMS&Qmc SEVEBOTH and JEWELER, CONYKUS, GKOKOIA watcnes, t ’oek, rml Jew lry of every de scription repaired. All wo k done neatly, and in order, at lowest prices for cash, and warran ted to give satisfaetion. Shop : neat door to Post Office. aug231876-ly ff&WJVS * Li&teFO*u> BOGGY 1M I AGO* DEPOSITORY, COWERS, OEOKGIA. DK.It.ERB IN AND M.VNCPVCTVRERB OF HAND CASTS, WHEELBARROWS, and VEHICLES of all kinds. HARNESS, from the Cheapest to the Renrcst. both Hand and Machine Stitch <■,!. We keep the he9t lUMDB lIKNBSB. in Use, for CARRIAGES BUGGIES, or one Horse WAGONS. Can supply any part of HARN ESS on short notice. Also, a full stock of LUMBER n "real 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 yellow pine. Also suitable lumber tor Coffin*. 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. Give us trial and set! PATENT WHEELS. I ful>s Spokes, Rims, Bodies, Seats, Shafts, Pole* Dash Frames, Springs. IRON in great variety. Screws and Bolt* of hest make. I’.itent and Enameled Leather, Knarnelod Cloths, Moss and everything a Trimmer needs. Full stock of best t'mi age Paints, Varnishes, Oils, Colors, Om ni cuts, and Paints generally. NEW CARIJIAGES, BUGGIES ami WAGONS always on hand, iu great v arii ty. and can make to order any style fr mi lily desired. Old ones Repaired, Painted and Trimmed at short notice, ami at living rates. We buy the best material, and having suitable machinery, are able to turn off work with neatness and snatch. Will constant devotion to our Bust ness, Honest Dealings with our Custom ers, Experienced Faithful Mechanics, and the manufacture of Reliable Goods in tour line, we hope to merit a liberal pat ronage from a Generous Public. Thank ing you tor your past favors, we will be glad to see you again at our office on Repot Street, near the Geo Ii R. Respectfully. Downs & Lanoforo If, M. Lem M, #. i : DRUGGIST and APOTHECARY.: j Centre Street, CONYERS, GEORGIA —Dealer in— DRUGS. MEDICINES, CHEMICAL. 4 1 erfumery and Fancy Toilet articles, t. .. , PURE WINES & LIQUORS lor Medicinal nsc. d*p"p"’ oa *’ Varnishes. 4c, Trusses and shoui t n r ? Bh Garden Seeds. Paten "crintiraf 8 Uf aU kinds ' Pm compounded..^® mi m sjArgimnsi, Pto tt. information as to best root, sorts o r or to any Summer Ke hotild ad ,'rcl ° t ler P oint i" the county B W ‘ WEENN, ntral * M#en ger Agent Kenneaaw Route, Atlanta, Ga. ®te gichttate Jfatfislcc. Sweet and Twenty, *V OOBDON CAMI’BELL. Maiden, thou art passing ivmt, Sweet and twenty, fond and fair: Joy and love before thee meet. Tear* may bring their load of care. Joy* are few and woea are plenty, Then, come kiss me, sweet and twenty. Honey-bees teach thi* to man, A* each sweetest flower they taste— Gather honey while y.i cun ; What yo gather net ye waste. Joy* ar few and woe* arc plenty, Then, come kiss me, sweet and twenty, A the bee the lioaey sip*. Let me, folded in thine arms, Sip the honey of thy lip. Taste the sweetness of thy charms. Joy* are few and woea are plenty, Then, come kiss me, sweet and twonty, autumn leaves. "Come little leaves” said the wind one day— Come o’er the meadows wirh me and play • Put on your dresses of rod and gold; Sommer is gone and the days grow cold.” Boon a* the leaves heard tha wind's loud call. Down they com* fluttering, one and all: Over the brown flelds they danse and flew, Singing the soft little songs they knew, “Cricked, good-bye we’ve been friends so long ! Little brook, sing as your farewell rung— Say you are sorry to see us go ; Ab 1 you will miss us, right wre know. "Der lille lambs, in your fleecy fold, Mother will keep yo* from horm and cold: Fondly we’ve watched you in vale and glsde; Ssy, will you dream of our loving ahade t Dancing and whirling the little leaves went: Winter had called them, and they were con tent. Roou fast asleep in their earth y beds. The enow laid a coverlet over their heads. Georgia Cooper, A Baptist Brother Gives His Opinion fibout the Pres by f erians. Alady correspondent of the Indepen' dent give* a sketch of a sermon she heard in Georgia nearly a century ago, from which we give nn extract: The preacher wag apparently about fifty year* of age, large muscular and I well propotioned. On ent< ring the pul pit he took off his coat and bung it on a nail behind Rim, then opened hi* collar and wristbands, and wiped the perspi ration from hit, face, neck and hands. He was clad in striped cotton hornespnn and his shirt was of the same material. He had traveled several miles that, mor ning and seemed almost overcome by the heat.. But the brethern sung a couple of hymns while he was fanning and cooling off. and when he rose he looked comfortable and good natured. He had preeched there once oi twice before, but to most of the audience he was a stranger. Hence he thought it. necessary to announce IcmseH, which he did as ‘Old Club Ax Davis, from Scriven county, a Half Hard and Half Soft Shell Baptist.’ ‘I have given myself thrt r.ame,’ said he, ‘because I believe the Lord elected me, from eternity, to go ahead in die backwoods and grub out a path and blaze the way for other men to follow. After the thickest of it is cat away, a good warm Methodist brother will come along and take my trail and make things a little smoother and a good deal noiser. And after all the underbrush is cleared out, and the owls and wolves are skeer ed back, and rattlesnakes is killed off, a Presbyterian brother, in black lroad cloth and w hite cravat, will come along and cry for decency and Older. And they,ll both do good in their sjiere. I don't despise a larnt man, even when he don’t dress and think as I do. You coulden’t pay me enough to wear broad cloth, summer nor winter, and you coul den't pay a Presbyterian brother enough to go without it in dog-day*. ‘God didn’t make us all alike, my brethern; but every man has bis own spere. When God has a place to fill he makes a man and puts him in it. When he wanted General Jackson be made him ;o fightin’ Injuns and the English ; when he wanted George Whitfield, he made him for to blow the Gospel trumpet as no other man ever blotved it; and when lie wanted Old Club Ax Davis, he made him, and set him to grnbbiu’in the back voods. ‘But my shell is'nt bo hard but I can -ee good pints in everybody ; and as for tie Presbyterians, they are a lonr; way ihead of Baptists and Methodists in some liings. They laise their children better tian any people on the face of the earth. >nly a few days ago a Methodist class i ader said to me: Brother Club Ax. I vas born a Methodist, I was raised a viethodist; aud by the grace of (iod, 1 ope to die a'Metlrodist: but, thank God L've got. a Presbyterian wife to raise my GA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 18707 children.' And I beleive my brelhern it the Lord should open lh. j way for me to marry again, I,<l try iny oesi to find a Presbyterian woman, and run my chances ol break in her Into the saving doctrines of feet-washing and immersion afterward.’ Just at this point he was int rjpted by two spotted hounds that had been continually running up and down the pulpit-stairs. One of them jumped upon the sent and began to knaw his coat. tai 1 , in which was something he had brought along for lunch. He turned slowly around and took him hy the ears and tail and threw him out of the win dow behind him, as eas'ly as if it had been a young kitten. The other took warning and got out as rapidly as pos sible, though not ithoul howl'ng and y elping as if it had been halt killed. lie then turned to the audience and said, smilingly j ‘St. Paul exhorted the breth ren to beware of dogs. 1 wonder what he would do if he were in my place this morning! It appears like I am com passed about with dogs, as David says be was., He had scarcely commenced preaching again before there was a 'cirible squeal ing and kicking among the mules and horses that were tied to wees close by. He put his head ou*. of the wmdow, and said: ‘No harm done, my brethern. Just a oreatur with a side saddle on has brok en 'oose. Will some brother head the animal! for no sister can wa ! k home this h*t day ’ Quiet being restored, he continued : ‘Well, my bret.'rern, I will now try t.o say what I allowed to about the Presby.. tcrians. ‘As I said before, they raise the chil dren a heap belter than we do. They behave be'ter, in church, and keep Sun day better, and read the Bible and ! arn the catechism better than ours do. I declare, my breibern, their children are larnt that Westminister Catechism by the lime they can begin to talk plain. ‘lt ain’t three weeks since I was out a cattle hunting—for two of rry yearling’s had strayed off—and I stopped in at n and brother Harkey’s, on Mud Creek, and toolr A;.,— .. .tracon in me I'iVS pyterian Church over thnr. Well, as true a* I st ind here, mv brethern, sisier Harkey had her little ga> standing right before her, with toes just, even with the crack o’ the floor, and her hands was a hangin' down by her side, and her mouth turned np like a chicken when it dunks and she was puttin' this question to her out o’ that Catechism: ‘ *What are the benefit* which in ti"* life do either accompany or flo.* fr nn justification, adoption and sanotifiea tion ?’ •Now, the question itself was enough to break the child down. Put when sin had to begtr to say that qtmstkn ah over (for that’s the wav it wa- in the book) and then hitch the answer to i'. and which, all pu together, made l*i ‘The benefits which in this life do . it her accompany or flow from justification, adoption and sanctification are peace ot conscience, joy in the Holy Ghost, in crease of grace, and persevorenee therein to the end,—l thought the child was the greatest wonder I had ever seen in all my life. She tuck it right through, too, without balkin’ or iiiiscin the fi'si word. And she spoke so sweet and she looked so like a little angel, that before I knowed it the tear* was arunnin do.vn mv cheeks as big as buckshot. I’ve seen the day when I coulo have matt Id and split a thousand rails quicker and easier than I could larnt that Ihir.g and said it off like she. dub ‘Now, my brethern, that child didn’i understand or know the rneapiil ot one word o’ that. It put me up to take it in inyse’t. But just let that Presbj twin young tin grow up and every word of that Catechism will come hack to her and liar character will stiffen up under it and she’ll have the liackbone of the rna*- ler'in her for lite. ‘Now, I can’t put things into my chil dren that way. Nothing don’t stay somehow. It's like drivin a nail into a rotten log.’ This last remark I never forgot. For thirty years afterward, a9 I would stand at the blackboard trying to fix rule* and principles in the mind of a dull pupil, this remark would come back to me with its peculiar pertinency. ‘I tell y ou,” my brethern, he continued “if oar chidren had a little more Cate chistn, aid the Presbyterians a little less, it would be beiter for both ‘Then we don't pray in our families like they do. I know their prayers are mighty long, and they pray all over creation; but after all, it's the ri Hit wav. Its better than prayin’ too lit tle. ‘Now’, roy father and mother was good ’Baptists, and raised their children to be honest and industrious; but I never heat’d ohe of thorn (gay in my life, and I was most a grown man before I ever prayed a prayer myself, aii(J it was on this w ise : 'Ther'* was to be a big meet in’ over in Elbert eoun’y, and I kno wed a pretty ga 1 over that-that I wanted to go and see. So I borrowed aIIt ie Jersey wagio, which was a stylish thing in them days, and went over to her Lou so and stayed all night, and engaged her to i ide ‘ o ic tneetin’ with me next day, which was Sunday. ‘We went, and had a glorious lime— and I may as well say right lore tint she was afterward my wife—but a com in home I met with a powerful accident that I've never got’ over to this day. As I was a cornin’ down a steep 1011, some part of the gearin' gave way and let me and the wa 'in on my oretur's heels; and bein’ young and skerry and not touch ust*d to wheels, she wriggled and kicked and tore from one side of the road to the other, till A was pitched head foremost as much as ten foot into a deep galley, and it s a miracle of mercy that my neck wasn't broke on the spot. ‘Expectin’ t )be killed every mint!. I thought I ought to be ask the Lord for mercy. But, as I had never prayed in my life, I couldn't think of the first thing to say but the blessin’ ny father used to ask before eiiin' when v,*e bad company, and which w-<s this: ‘Lord, make us thankful tor what we are about to receive. - ‘Now, my brethern, do your ‘spose any Presbyterian raised boy was ever put to such a stiail a* that for a prayer? No. lie would have prayed for him self and gone off after the Jews and the heathens whilst I was a. huntin'up and a gettin' i 0 that bkssin’." The Inhumanity of Man Illustra ted in a Sad Story of the Sea. A terrible story of cruelty and inhu manity was told ill Commissioner South - worth's court yesterday. John Lacoque, Captain ol the ship Texana, was before tiy and cruelty on the high sea*, to hi* time Lewis Teosso, an Italian. The -lor , as aodueed in evidence, showed that while the -hip Texana lay at anchor in one of the Mexican ports, Teosso was taken s'ck and lay in great agony upon tie deck of the vessel. The Ca| tain re fused to lielievc in the sickness of hie mate and ordered him to duty. The ma e was unable to obey and the Captain became violently angry and brutally beat and kicked him. The mate dragged himself to Id, cabin, hoping to escape further puiii-hmeut from the Captain Lactqni* broug’t a doctor on hoard with a viciv of securing an opinion from the •nan ot seiene.- ibat Teosso was not ill. ' lu-doctor, bowt-vei, pronounced him very sick uuii prescribed for him. 'I his seemed o lin t her incense the (’apt in against the helpless mite. Tile ship sail' and soon fr this port, and when at sea the Cap ain ordered Te sso to be carried from li s cabin and thrown u on deck. This was dove. Lacoque’s cruel ty was not ye> K.-itisfii and. He stripped him ot his rank and ordered him before the mas-. Teosso was unable to perform his duty ; he was >oo weak to move Then the last ac* ot cruelty was inaugu rated He was depr ved of all nourish ment. He begged he s‘ewart lor a lit— tie tea, but. even this was refused ilie dying sailor by the Captain's order. Four days he snff red with siv kites*, ex bosire and the pains of the starvation, and I he sh p reached the quarantine sia tion below '.his city. There the quaran tine physician gave him food and med icine. On reaching this city comp aint was made before Commissioner Soii'h werth anil the • oininissioner having heal'd the story, held Lacoque4o bail in the sum of $2,500 for his appearance at the next term ot the United Sia'es Cir cuit Court to answer tin charge prefer red against *‘ini.—A r . O. Times. On ihe floor in a I anbury home iies a little pile of sewing. Fiv<- months ago the head of the house warned a chair and seeing but one handy he dumped to the sewing which lay oil it. t.is wife asked hitn to pick it up. • He said he wou dn't do it. She told him as he threw it there it rnitld remain iinlill he got ready to take it up. !-he would never touch it. And there it remans, a immoral >o indi vidual spirit- and un'ted folly —Danbury News. Rubbing the hands with cologne be fore putt mg on kids, keeps them from getting clammy. Why is a blush like a little girl? be cause it becomes a womoti. More Dogs Than Ho Wanted. An editor in reading, Pa., advertised •he other da\ that he 'would lake a good dog in pay m i:l ol one year's subscrip. lion lor his paper. The in xi day forty three dogs were Bent to the office. The day afterward, when the news had spread out into the country, four hundred farm cis had sent two dogs apiece by , xpre>s, wiin right baskets fail of puppies, all marked C O. I>. In the iiniintiine the ofl'e. found its way into neighlioi ing |-States, and before the en 1 of the week there were eight thousand dog* tied up with ropes in the editot's front and luck yards. The assortment included all the kinds, from the bloodhounds down to poodles. A few hundred broke loose and swarmed on the stairways and in the entries, and stood outside the. sane, turn and howled, and hud fights, and sniffed under the cracks of the door us if they Were hungry lor some c ditor. And the editor e’imbed out the window, up the water spout and out on the comb of the root and wept. There was no issue ot the paper for six days, and the only wav the triends of the eminent journalist could toed him was by sending lunch up to him in balloons. At last somebody bought a barrel of arsenic and three tons of beef, .md poisoned the dogs, and the editor came down only to find on his desk a bill from the Mayor for £8 000, being the municipal tax on dogs at one dollar per head. He is not offering the same inducements to subscribers now, and dosn't want a dog. The Lazy Man. A lazy man is always good n.itnred He never flies into passion. He might er:*;vi into one end, it iliat where possi. b’e, but l!i" idea cf flying into one is pro paste rous. Wlio ever heard ol a lazy man break ing into a bank where a crowbar had to be used, or drilling into a safe? Not bn', that lie might covert lii n< ighbor’s goods contained therein, but, the horror of handling a crowbar and drill wculd al ways deter him from ac* nally committed burglary. He n wer run* away wi.h his negnoors wife, simply on account oftne honor of running. It lie is ever known ti run, it is to run to seed. He rarely lie* about a bar neigh! or*, tor it would be t- o much exertion ; b’>t he beg about a bar room all day. He is ot inestimable service to a bill iard saloon, keeping the chair warm and watching the game, for few would care to play when there are no spectators. The tact, that, lie does this without, pay day in and day out, show* the unselfish ness ot his nature. The lazy man never gets up revolu tions, insurrection* or other popular excitement, and don't make a nuisance ot hims.lt by tramping around the coun try making incendiary speeches to pro mote public discontent, In his own neighborhood he is never a busybody in o her people's affairs, for t!ie ve y idea ot being a busybody would drive him out of his head. N > lazy man ever ran mad- If be went crazy, it was because he couldn’t, go anywhere else without walking. Lazy men don't <1 slurb the quiet of { p. ac-tiil neighbors by putting up, facto ries, niniaces and other abomination'. NO GBIT. It was midnight The young man . mo tareweded himself out of the house, -n.d Eincline had locked 'he doer and .vis untying *er shoes, wlu n her niotli er came down stairs and said : ‘Wanted to creep up s airs without my fienring you, oh? Didn't think I knew if was an hour after midnight, did you ?' Tin girl made no reply, and the j mother continued: ‘Did he propo-e this time ? ‘Why, mother !’ exclaimed the dang' ■ er. ‘Y. ii can ‘why, moiher?' all you wai I to, bin don't I know lie has been c lin ing here for the Inst,year? Don't I know that you've burned up at least four tons ot coal courting around here ?' The girl got her shoes off, and the mother stood iu the stair door and asked: ‘Erne ine, have you got any grit ?’ ‘I guess so,' ‘I guess you haven’t, I just wish that a fellow with Iplse teeth and a mole on lii* chin would come sparking me, Do you know what would happen, Fane line ?' ‘No.” • Well, I’ll tell yon. He’d conic to time in sixty days, or he’d get out of this marsion like a goat jumping for sun flower seeds.’ Erie line went to bed to reflect over if- A DOG AND MONKEY FIGHT. Side Shew at a Nevada Race-* Track-The Monkey Vic torious. [£n>tn the Virginia Chrom'd*,] The i ace track was yesterday enlivened by a very attractive prngrtiruinc, in which a light between a dog and a mon kvy was 'he lending speciality. While the amusement was progressing a at run g-rhove in sight with n small black dog. and saimicml up to a post upon which the monkey was basking in the sun. Jo all oiitwa.nl appearance the monkey was dead, and s a mod to have been hung np on tl o post to keep out of ihe way of the chickens. The stronger moved up to the monkey and poked 'he lifeless animal with bis cane. At ilic touch ot the stick the animals legs swung back and forth without volition on it Impart. ‘When did this monkey die?’ asked the stranger of a small boy. before the liny could luruish nn ex planation of the monkey's taking off, the black dog came np and sniffed the uni* mals tail. 'I he next thing anybody knew was the fact of the monkey sitting astride the dog, and the dog howling and squealing like a neglected candidate. The monkey had fallen on him like a cloudburst, and immediately the wildest excitement prevailed. The crowd wa* on hand at once, and Daggett, rush ng about and flourishing an immense cane, acted as master of ceremonies, and Joe Stuart, pulling out a handful of twen ties, wanted to lay od Is on the ntonkov. As soon as the dog recovered from his surpsise, and realized lbe somewhat im portant tact that the monkey was one of the quick instead ot tho dead, lie rose to the situation and uudo a vigorous de fence. Tlit* monkey, however, got the dog hy the collar, and then winding his tai' about the post, held him with a pret ty subst: mini grip in one hand and onffed him vigorously with the other. Under this treatment the dog howled for mercy mMrOwMw hack yard with the tip of his tail curled under his legs like u orescent. Tho stringer who owned the dog stood hy. n passive snd asfonbhed spectator ot the s •'•ne. mid when the dog disappeared and the monkev resumed h s state of topor on the ‘.op of the post, the boy simp'y remarked, ‘Don’t act like lie was dead.’ A Fearful Suicide Off the St. Louis Bridge. The bridge is fnst gaining a repulu 'ion as short cut to eternity. V e linv* had i wo or three sensational affairs there already, and yesterday added one to the list. About ten minutes after two o'clock yesterday afternoon ilie jiedestriatf* in the vicinity of the seat pior, or at the point win re the central span begin*, ere horrified to see a man spring from a position which lie had taken on the outride i 1 the railing, a id tlnn gy firing in the air ns he passed swift’y through the gn at distance from roadway to wa ter, strike the latter with a loud splash, and disappear. Instantly several person rush'd to (be spot whence lie had leap ed, and watched :he water mstently in expectation of seeing him come to tl r surface. Bui there was -i stain of blood on the water, caused hy t'm treiucm'f us rccusttion, and that was all. If the bod y rose at all, it was so far down as not to lie visible from lliobridgCertain it is that the poof wretch was dead before he had stopped descending. Ho was a goodlooking young min. about twenty five years o'd, of inid iim height, light hair, goatee and <•< tnph xiot, aid well dressed. Near the p ace tia in wl icli ho jumped was fotm- 1 a 1 trii.il t.ew over coat, that probably led been v< in hut a few hours. In its peek, t was found a large lent her poel.it-book, indicating that the owner was a mail of business. It contained s>2-17 08 in bills of various sezes. if also contained a copy of she Chicago 7 ic, of the 15th, and a copv •f the I’hiladclphhi Ho use hold limes of of i lie Ist. On the inside margin of ono of these papers were the words‘St. Louis Kansas City and Northern.’ Tills was i the only writing of any description that J was fouud, and there is nothing by which ! a stranger might go to woik to establish j identity.— *5/- Jjcuh Republican, Burlington Ilawkoye; In all ages painters whose genius has transit'red to liie dull canvass pictures of soulful life and glory, and who have made the dumb, cold marble eloquent wilff beauty and thought, have died of despair in vaiu at tempts to catch the expression of a man's face whin tm turns in speech lets wrath to look ili" answer that his tongue can not frame to his wi.'V- ‘I told vpu so.' NO. 18.