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A. C. McCALLA,
Attorney at Law,
CONYERS, i > GEORGIA,
Will practice in Hockdule and adjoining coun
ties. v3-n!5-ly
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SueeessoLto C. H. Fhinijv & Cos.
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AUGUSTA, - - - GEORGIA.
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jAtta'C. BAKToIt. I CALEB J? BAKTOM
BARTON & BARTON.
Attorneys at Xtaw,
CONYERS, i : GEORGIA,
Will practice in the Courts of tliis State, Mid
is th. U. S. Courts at Atlanta, Ga.
Special attention given to the Collection af
Claim*. T3-nl-tsf
WiEm&m S&o&ie
BYSBM asi JEWELER.
CONYEKri, GEORGIA
Watoh'js, ClooY, and Jewelry of erery de
inription repaired. All work done neatly, ani
in order, at lowest prices for cash, and warran
ted to gi to satis* action. Shop: next door to
Poßt Office. nug231876-ly
BowjfS &
LsurGFaao,
BUGGY aud WiGON REPOSITORY,
CONYERS, GEORGIA.
DK.tr.KSd IN AND MANUK ACT VEEP S OK
HAND CARTS,
WHEELBARROWS,
and VEHICLES of all kinds.
HARNESS, from the Cheapest to the
Dcnresi, both Hand and Machine Stitch
ed. We keep the best
IlilOdllDE HUSffiS.
in LV, for CARRIAGES
BUGGIES, or one Horse WAGONS'
Gan sup! ly any part of ilAlvN ESS on
aliort notice.
Also, a full stock of
LUMBER
in great variety always on Band, for
I'oiiK* building purposes Carpenters
nml Contractors would do wcdl to see our
special wholesale rates.
Mouldings, L.it ices, Stops, Strips, etc.,
‘‘ 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 for Coffins. We
ijwayg keep in stock Burial cases and
Caskets of various sizes and lengths,
from infanta to adults—all at very low
figures. Cjffin Hardware generally.
With our facilities, we propose to make
Coffins ol any style, from the plainest to
joe finest, cheaper than we possibly could
b y hand alone. Give*ns a trial and
tee!
patent wheels.
Hubs, Spokes, Kims, Bodies,
“;Us, Shafts, Poles Dash-Frames,
'. 8 > Springs. IRON in great
'unety. Screws and Bolts of best
u e> , latent and Enameled Leather,
enameled Cloths, Moss and everything a
runnier needs. Phill stock of best
wnage Paints, Varnishes, Oils, Colors,
-wnaments, and Paints generally. NEW
carriages, buggies
v . ” AGONS always on hand, in great
let L an( l can make to order any style
Hcaired. Old ones Repaired,
r a - ,ld T, ’ mnle<i at R hort notice,
material’"and We , , buy the beßt
aro ’ and having suitable machinery,
and rl' eto ! ,uru °H" work with neatness
dispatch.
nesJ'n °? nstant devotion to our Busi
ers v 1 , est Dealings with our Custom
*hS e i‘ enCedF^,hful Mechanics, and
ro ; r r ,lfaCU * ,e of Pliable Goods in
ronann <•’ We bo P e ,0 merit a liberal pat
in vo„ f f oln a Generous I’-blic. Thank-
L'lad" J! W your P ast favors: we will be
Hopot Si 66 U a^ a ‘ a a( our office on
P t ™reet, near the Geo R li.
Respectfully,
- Downs & Langford
CHISf ADOKOS
,, H AIR dye.
t Ha f Dye is the “fort
most natural , producing
not stain Tv,.! 68 ° f . Black °* Brown,
1 18 tandard t-l” 1 ’ ? nd 18 ea3lI Y applied.
’ l P°a ? nfl a favorite
P ' °' Box, i- a o J - DO 80,
D °2l 3m 3 New York.
ite gflcliile legisfev.
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Beautiful Things.
Beautiful faces a-v those that wear—
It mutters but little if dark or fair
Whole-souled honesty printed theie.
Beautiful eyes are those that show,
Like chi’) slal panes where hen l ih-fire
.clow,
Beautiful thoughts that bum below.
Beautiful lips are those whose words
Leap from the heart like songs of birds,
Yet whose utterance produce girds.
Beautiful hands are (hose that do
W ork that is earnest, brave and true,
Moment by moment, the long day
through.
Beautiful feet are those that go
On kindly ministries to and fro —
I’own low, List ways, il God wills if so.
Beautiful shoulders are those tha* bear
Ceasi e-s bu’dcns of homely care,
With patient grace and daily prayer.
Beautiful lives are those that bless
Silent rivers of happiness,
V hose hidden fountains few may guess.
Beautiful twilight, at net of sun,
Beautiful goal, with race well won,
Beautiful rest, with work well done.
Beautiful groves, where grasses creep,
Where brown leaves fall, where drifts
lie deep
Over worn out hands, O, beautiful
sleep !
Tlio Debt to Mothers*
Mothers live for their children, make
self-saoraliee for them, and manifest
their tenderness and love so lreely that
tlie name mother is the sweetest in hu
man language. And yet sons, youthful
and aged, know but little of the anxiety,
the nights of sleepless and painful solici
(tide which their mothers have spent
over their thoughtless waywardness.
Those mothers go down to their graves
with those hours of secret agony untold
As the mother wait lies by night, or prays
in privacy in her closet, she weighs we.l
the words which she will address to her
son in order to lead him to a manhood
of honor and usefulness. She will not
tell him all the griefs and deadly fears
w' ich beset her soul. She warns him
will' ttemblmg, lest she nia; say over
much. She trie* to clia.im hirn with
cheery love while her heart is bleeding.
No worthy and successful man ever yet
knew the breadth and depth of the obi
ttatiom which lie is under to the mother
who gal led his heedless steps at trie
time when his character or virtue and
purity was so narrowly balanced against
a course of vice and ignominy. Let her
dutiful son do his utmost to smooth his
mother's pathways, let him obey as im
plicitiiy as he can her wishes and a lvice*
let him omit nothing that may contribute
to her peace, rest and happiness, and lie
will part from her at the tomb with the
debt to her half discharged.
TJoo Much Scripture.
The building committee of a church re
cently finished in NeW Jersey wanted a
stone slab over the door with the name
ol the church and a scriptural motto. It
occurred to them that nothing could be
better than “My house shall be called a
house of prayer.” So one of the com
mitteemen, who was in a great hurry,
told the stonecutter to chisel the thir
teenth verse of the twenty-first chapter
of Matthew. —He thought the verse en
ded with the words he wanted to use.
The stonecutter took the whole verse
from the Bible and faithfully copied it to
the end. Imagine th e horror of the
committee when the stone was delivered
It read, “My house shall be called a
house ol prayer, but ycu have made it a
den of thieves.”—The stonecutter insis
ted that he had obeyed ordeis; but the
committeemen insisted that the motto he
had inscribed was not wanted, and that
it would be of no particular use to them.
The slab is now in the stonecutter’s
yard, anybody who wauls it for a tomb
stone can probably buy it cheap.
A tercher iu Portland Sunday school
was enlightning her pupils as to the ex
traordinary number of Solomon’s wives,
when a little fellow spoke up arid said :
'Golly, I should think he would have
got tired of going a courting and getting
married!'
A German enlisted in the regular ar
my In the course of a few days he was
put on picket duty. Ilis instructions
were, when anybody approached, io say,
“Who comes there?” three times, and
then shoot. Before long he perceived a
man approaching; he waited quietly till
the man came very near, then suddenly
brought his musket to his shoulder and
shouted, “Who comes dere dree dimes
Bang!
CONVkks, a7, THURSDAY. JANUARY 14, 1*77."
THE VOTE OF LOUISIANA.
An Aesumptio t of Sherman and
His Fellows Refuted.
New Otti.EANs, Deo. 28—In the re
port ol Senator Sherman and his fellow
Republicans, accompanying thu Presi
dent's supplemental message to Congress
on the last election in Louisiana, reliance
is placed upon theregistration figures to
show that the registered colored voters
numbered 116,310 and the registered
white voters 92,096, giving a majority ol
coloied registered voters ol 22,314.
By the State census of 1875, as
made by Kellogg's officials, .
and entirely in the intetest
■ of the Radical party, the to
tal colored population was.. 410,611
Total white popu'alion, 404,910
Grand total 855,527
The native whites are
put down at 348,897
Foreign whites,. 56,019 —404,916
Computing the voles at one
tittli of the population, the
colored voters would be.. .. 90,122
The native whites,... 69,770
By the census the nat
uralized citizens
number 19,374 89,153
By the same census there were
9,684 foreigners over 21
years of age that were not
naturalized. It one-fourth
of then#became citizens of
the United States from 1875
to 1876, the preponderance
ol the white vote is shown,
according to Kellogg’s fig
ures, to be over ... 1,300
The discrepancy between the
registration of colored vo
ters, as reporU and by St nator
Sherman amounting t 0..,. 208,306
And Kellogg’s voting popula
tion 179,275
, Showing a fraudulent rogistra
lion in the interest of the
Republicans of 29,031
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Not in the Family.
An old farmer brought home two jugs
the other day, one labelled “boiled oil”
■ and tlie other turpentine.” They were
p'aced into the barn and pretty soon it,
! was noticed li at the oid man had buisi
ness there at iegu!ar intervals. Ills old
est son slyly followed him and saw him
tukuio- a deep draught from one of the
j ° 1 °
jugs. The old man heard a step outside
! and before going out. he arranged those
jugs according ‘o his artistic taste.
He was hardly gone when the son
slipped in and took a drink from tlie jug
oat of which he supposed his father had
drank. The next moment lie was splut
| teriiig, coughing and gasping, and the
1 old man entered and asked :
I “Turpentine doesn’t agree with you,
| does it
“But I saw you drinking it,’’ ox-
J claimed the injured and indignant son.
“That is true,” said the old man,
while a beautiful smile played over his
face; “but it doe n’t necessarily follow
that tlie rest of the family must relish
turpentine because I ao!’’
. , ——
Good nature is the best feature in the
| finest face—wit may raise admiration,
i judgment may command respect and
knowledge attention:—Beauty may in
iufiame the heart twith love,but good na
ture lias a more powerful effect it adds a
thousand attractions to the charms ot
beauty and gives an air of beneficence to
the homely face.
Itnagfnashun, tew much indulged in,
soon is tortured into reality ; this is or.e
way that good boss thieves are made;
a man leans over the fence all day, and
imagines tlie boss belongs to him and
sure enuff, the fust dark night the boss
does.
Win. A. Jones, foreman ot the com
posing room of New York Times, died
last week. Just before his death, he be
came conscious for a moment, and in
that gleam dwelling upon the habit of
life, he suddenly exclaimed : “The ads
are all right, Sherman; lock up tho
forms and let’s go to press.”
m 9
Sore Throat. —As the season ap
proaches for this distressing complaint,
we give the following prescription from
an eminent physician : 1 teaspoonful of
salt, 1 teaspoouful of red pepper, 2 table
spoonfuls of vinegar, in a taacnp of boil
ing water, cover it to draw and gargle.
‘John,’ asked a doctor of the apothe
cary's boy, ‘did Mrs. Green get the med
icine I-ordered ?’ ‘I guess so,’ replied
John, ‘for I saw crape on the door knob
this morning.’
The President of the Senate.
Ihe duties of the President of the
Senate in the ceremony of counting the
electoral votes arc very clearly defined
in the Constitution, and they can not ba
enlarged beyond Hie constitutional grant
It has been said that he may decide
what certificates Jo open and what to io
ject. By’what attrihority wutdd fie im
din lake to decide ? Certainly by none
granted by the Constitution. It is said
that the Senate might previously instruct
him how to decide. By what anrll orily
the ouly constitutional duty of lliu Sen
ate is to he present with the House, that
the ccitificates may be opened before
them. Tlfen if a question between two
certificates arises, the two Houses, as we
have said elsewhere, must of necessity
decide which is Che one duly aurlhori
zed by the State. The Houses may
agree in what manner they will consider
the question, But the President of the
Senate, as such, lias no more coiistitional
mm hority to decide itjftau the Speaker
of the House. At the counting of the
votes, the Senate has no constitutional
power which the House does not share.
It is nowhere implied in the Constitution
that either House House has power to do
anything hut witness the opening and
of necessity, as we said, to determine,
upon constitutional principles, which of
two certificates be received as valid.
It is not even provided thal the Presi
dent of the Senate shall announce the
ivsult. But that is a mere form which
affects nothing. The person who shall
have received the gsealest number of
votes, if such number he a majority of
the whole number oVv’eclors appointed,
shall be President, w hether any announce
inent to that effect be made or net made.
One ot the drollest stories of the Wash
ington mill is that Senator Sherman is to
have himself elected President of the
Senate, so that “if no regular declaration
cf a President is made,” he wil 1 be ae'in”’
President. He will “take paines to pre
vent any official declaration either ol
Hayes or Tilden.” The President of the
Senate has nothing to do with it. Il the
votes are counted, so many for Hayes,
so many for Tilden, anybody who is ca
pable of doing a um in simple addition
will know who is the President, whether
the President of the Senate speaks or
holds his peace. Asa matter of cour
tesy, ho has generally been the presi
ding officer upon such occasions and
announced tlie vote. But tint is a pure
ly ceremonial position. He is officially
President of the Senate, di’ectcd by the
Constitution to open the eertific ites.
There is, however, no reason for depart
ing from the usual courtesy, except it be
supposed that lie proposes to assume
powers not Conferred by the Constitu
tion.
The place for opening the ccitificates
and counting the voles is not designated
in tlie Constitution, The House of Rep
resentatives, which is the larger and
more convenient hull for tho purpose,has
been generally, but not always, selected.
The proper place, however, is the Sen
ate-chamber : for it is tlie president ol
the Senate whom tho Constitution ap
points to receive and open the certifi
cates, and the chamber of the .body of
which he is the official head is obviously
the place in which he should perform
the duty. Moreover, as no place is pre
scribed, and the du'y is enjoined upon
the President of tlie Senate, he may
unquestionably appoint the place and in
vite the attendance of both Houses.
These are details which been set
tled without difficulty hitherto, and
which should raise no question now.
Indeed, nothing but custom wjjich is
not uniform can be urged in favor of the
hall of the House of representatives.
The propriety of the case dearly desig
nates the Senate-chamber as the place
for counting the vote.— Harper's Week
ly-
Spurgeon tells the following story : 'A
poor man, who had a large Intnily, gave
them a very comfortable support while
he was in health. lie broke his leg and
was laid up for some weeks. As he would
be for some time destitute ol tho means
of grace, it was proposed to hold a pray
er meeting at his house. The meeting
was led by Dea. Brown. A loud knock
at the door interrupted the service. A
tall, lank, bluefrocked youngster stoqd at
the door, with an ox-goad in his hand,
and asked to see Dea. Brown. ‘Father
could not attend this meeting,’ he aaid>
‘but he sent his prayers, and they are out
in the cart,’ They were brought in in
he shape of potatoes, beef, pork, and
corn. The meeting broko up without
the benediction*
According to an exchange, the phrase
‘excuse haste and a bad pen,’ was origi
nated by a runaway pig.
John Smith.
A'Veabody fannerjhad sold a Lynn
man a load of pir.o wood, but on his way
thither had lost the piece of brown paper
that contained the address. lie had
searched for him at the postofflee, city
hall, and u dozen bnr>rooins, but was
unable to find him and was on the point
of returning home when he saw an intel
ligent individual standing on the corner
of Broad and Atlantic streets to whom
he said :
‘1 sold this load of wood to a man
here in Lyun and cau't think of his name
it I should go to Halifax.
'Common name, is it ?' inquired the
man ns though lie would like to help him
cut of the difficulty,
‘Yes, very common ; heard it a thou
sand times,’ replied the tanner, knitting
his eyebrows.
‘Breed,’ suggested the man.
The'farmer shook his head.
‘No, that's not the name. Let me see
—who was it that built the ink ?' asked
the farmer leaning on ins whip handle.
*E| h Horn.'
' That’s not the name. Let mo see—
who was it that discovered America?’
‘Victoria C. Woodhnll.’
‘No,' replied the farmer. ‘lt’s funny,’
lie continued, ‘that I can’t think of his
name, I know my own. What is that
fellow's name that they called, ‘The
Father of his Country?'
‘John Morrisey.’
‘Taint him. Who is that big fellow
m Congri siAliat has been kicked out of
the cabinet for stealing so much money?’
‘Sitting Bui I .’
‘That’s not the man I'm looking for.
Who was it that built the steamboat?'
‘Charles Francis Adams.’
‘Well,’ said the man with the wood,
‘might ms well give it up, Idildi <>b iged
to you for your kindness,' he added,
starling ' IF.
‘Wasn’t it George Francis Train ?’
asked tiio man as it engaged in deep
meditation.
‘No,’ replied the farmer, ‘it’s’some of
those old fe’low’s names ; but that’s not
exactly it. Who was it that says we
come from the ape?’
‘John Smith.’
‘That’s the man I'm looking for,' said
the farmer, tipoing his hat ou the hack
of his head, and taking a fresh chew of
tobacco. ‘Where does he iive ?'
‘l’m lie,’ said the mart, and the two
went down the street together, while tiio
horse with the wood followed beliiud.
For the Youth.
Instead of saying ‘I only want five
dollars.' say I want only five dollars.'
Instead of ‘because why ?' say ‘why?’
Say ‘that horse,’ not ‘that there horse.’
Bay ‘right’ and ‘wrong,’ and not ‘very
right,’ and ‘very wrong.’
Bay ‘the better of the two,’ and not
‘the .best of the two.’
Bay 'is he within ?’ and not ‘is he in ?'
Say ‘two spoonfuls,’ and not ‘spoons
ful.’
Say ‘lie need not do it,’ and not ‘he
needs not do it.’
Instead of ‘eminent dange",’ say ‘im
minent.’
Instead of ‘the weather is not,' say
‘very warm.’
Say ‘I perspire,’ and not ‘I sweat.’
Say ‘what shall I do?' and not ‘what
will I do ?'
Say ‘I think indifferently of it,’ and
not ‘irdifferent.’
Say ‘I think I can,’ and not ‘I should
just ihink I could.’
Say ‘how are you,’ and not ‘bow do
you do.’
Say‘no one has called,’ and not ‘no
one hasn't called.’
Say ‘there has been much trouble,’ and
not ‘a good deal of trouble.’
Say ‘by those means,’ and not ‘this
means.’
Say ‘somehow or other,’ and uot somo
how or another.’
Say ‘wc are going across the bridge,’
and not ‘over it.’
Say ‘ho died ol lever,* not ‘by fever.’
Say ‘he died ot want,’ net ‘for want.’
Say ‘to be given away,’ and net ‘given
away gratia.’
Say ‘better than that,’ not ‘better nor
that.’
Say ‘we travel slowly,’ and not ‘travel
slow.’
Say ‘unless I am prevented,’ not ‘ex
cept I am prevented.’
Say ‘give me those books,’ not' -the
books.’
Say ‘what is your name,’ not ‘what
may be your name.’
Josh Billings says that opera music
has no more affect on him than castor
oil o>n a graven image.
Vulgarism Refined.
\ ulgnr—A fool ami his money is soon
parted.
Refined—The partnership ex'sling bo.
tween a s nip!© one and his sms'! hunge
is speedily dissolved.
\ ulgnr—Tell the truth and shame the
devil.
Kefinod—Proclaim what is veracious,
and cause Dlabolus to blush.
Vulgar—What is bred in the bone
cannot come out cf the flesh,
Kefinod—lliat which is matt red in
the ossified substance, cannot emanate
from the curncous nun.
V ulgnr—Each dog lias his day.
Refined—Each masculine, ot the en
nine speyies, is entitled to the possession
of one diurnal revolution of the earth.
V ulgar- Does your auxious mother
know you are out?
Refined—ls your solicitous maternal
gu ml inn aware that her offspring is
abroad ?
Questions and Answerr.
W hat will make a simple and inexpen
sive cistern filter ?
Tako a strong box', with the bottom
full of holes, over these tack a piece ot
stout, coarse flannel; then put in three
inches of charcoal next some gravel, and
top all with a layor of stones. Arrange
so that the spouts from tho eaves shall
enter this box, aud th 6 water will be
perfectly filtered as it runs from it into
the cistern.
Can smutty wheat be cleaned, if sa
how ?
Strong brine Ims boon recommended!
in which the wheat is to soak an hour or
two. Also, tor the same purpose, a so
lution of bluestone is advised; one pound'
of the bluestone dissolved in two gallons
of water. Aftor soaking the wheat iu
either of these preparations a ccuple of
hours, skirn off tho diseased grain and
fungus, take out tho wheat, spread iu on
a clean floor, and sprinkle over it newly
slaked lime.
How is blue grass seed most easily
gathered ?
In the blue grass regions of Ken
tucky the seed is usually gathered when
ripe by ‘strippers,’ worked by hand or
horse power. Tho hand strippers are
simple and inexpensive, costing only 93
or $3, and are said to accomplish from
ten to fifteen bushels per day. The horse
power strippers cost from $lO to 9150
and gather from one hundred to one bun*
dred and. fifty bushels per day.
What should be done with the seed
after it is gathered ?
Spread it out, so that it may not heat
in curing.
llow much seed should an acre yield f
The yield depends upon the quality ;
anywhere from ten to twelve or oven
fifteen bushels.
Sulphur Salt and Ashes for Stock.
Asa general rule, says a New Eng
land Farmer correspondent, live stock,
when well fed and cared for, will eat on
ly what their system needs, or what ap
petite craves. When cattle gnaw tho
bom ds and shingles fiom the barn, tho
hair troin each other’s sides, and oven
the grounds where soapsuds have been
empted ; when they eat old boots, bones
and woolen rags, in preference to their
food, there is something out ot sorts
with them, and as a corrective I have
never seen anything equal to plenty of
ashes, salt and sulphur.
My usual mixture is four quarts of
ashes, two quarts of salt and oue-half
pound of sulphur. When the slock have
corn cobs frequently I find the) need
ashes less. I can stop the gnawing of
wood by feeding cobs, every time. Sul
phur is good for the plood as a prevent
ive of disease, and also makes the hair
look well. It is also a preventative of
mange iu swine, and tends to ke p their
issues open. Sheep that have sulphur
frequently will not be troubled with
humors, and will never pull each other’*
wool.
Now, Judy, dear, run along to the
Sunday school. And, darlin l , when the
teacher call the names and comes to Judy
Fianagan, ye must ray ‘presinf,’ but if yo
are not there, say ‘absent.’
The biggest tree in California is not
in the Yosemite Valley, King’s River
Valley, in Fresna county, is 5,000 feet
above the sea and its walls, which are
about 3,000 feet high, are very precipi
tous. In this valley anew grove of col
lossal redwood trees has been discovered.
One of them eclipses all that have been
discovered on the Pacific coast. It* cir
ctimfemice as high as man can reach is
enormous.
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