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ELUJAY, GFA., JULY 20, fSBS.
Official Ors-ak of Fannin Cos.
Official Oro-a-n or Gilmbk Cos
Official Orcan of Pickens Co
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Sear Conyers, Ga., July 6- 1882.
Editors of the Cmirier :
July lias- come at last and lias
brought with it its ustral amount
of warm weather, flies, goals, and
June bugs;, green fields and
woods, swinging birds, bairbKirg
brooks, me?oa, plmrn and peareli
es. The propftelie little ‘‘killy
did” also made Ms- appearance a
few nights ago 1 , awd warns us to
tey up in store of fltese luxuries
for the dark days of winter, “for,”
says he, “io three mmiClrs from
my first appearance the dVilFing
frosts of autumn wilf tfesolate
Jour fields and woods, hush* your
singing birds, chill your babbling
brooks, and find for me r with
the rest of Nature,a frozen tomb.”
A prophet of death amid the per
fection of life! I thought last
night afs I listened to his omi
nous chatter,-is not this a picture
of human iife and happiness?
Now often do we find the dregs
of pain, disappointment, and un
happiness in the sweetest cup of
pleasure and enjoyment l How
often are tire most shining pros
pects of life beclouded by the
sombre shroud ol death l It seems
fhat the theater of man’s actions
is upon the very verge of the
grave itself £ How close they are
fogether—life and death ! How
rapidly one succeeds the other?
“Yea! hope and despondency, pleasure
and pain,
We mingle togetbei in snnahine and rain ;
And the smiles and the tears, the son gaud
the dirge,
3tiil foHow each other like surge upon
surge.-
*■ "Tis the wrnk of an eye, ’tis the diaught
of a breath.
From the blossom of health to the pale
ness of death,
From- tire gilded saloon to the bier and the
abroud f
©b, why should' the spirit of mortal be
proud
The lively whistle of the steam
thresh is heard no more this sea
son, and affairs have again assum
ed their rwal quietness in these
parts. It has been many a long
year since the small grain was as
good in this section as it was this
year. Ex-Representative W. L.
Peek made over a thousand
bushels and others of Rockdale’s
best farmers measured nearly up
with him. Our farmers are feel
tag happy over their good lueft in
this crop.
Owing to- the late coldness in
the spring, cotton is rather small
but has a healthy appearance.
Some fields commenced bloom
ing over a week ago; The un
parallelled amount of rain is giv
ing some fields a good pasture in
which to run, but it lias advanc
ed corn to a stage unknown for
tbisseason. If the rains contin
ue the cotton crop may fall a lit
tle short,- but there is one thing
certain, the Rockdale farmers
will make bread enough and that
is something they have not done
since the war. May be Provi
dence is goir.g to force bread
stuff upon fhem this year to show
them the foliy of raising nothing
hut cotton.
It was predicted that when
summer come the people would
be displeased with the “no fence”
law, which went into force in
this county the sth of last Jan.,
but the contrary seems to be the
result. Persons who were not
favorably inclined are now *no
fence law” men to the hilt. One
-old gentleman told me the worst
feature he saw in it was that his
milch cows “got too fat” and
were not as good milkers as when
they were leaner. But the milk
and bntter are much belter and
richer which makes np for the
old gentleman's loss. Another
very evident and gratifying ef
fect is observed iu the successful
labors of the little busy bee. The
quality and quantity of honey is
precedenled in the knowledge of
old bee-raisers. Rockdale un
der Ihe present system is indeed
“a land flowing with milk and
honey."
This county elected delegates
on the 4th, inst. to the Guberna
torial convention. Stephens men
were elected by a large majority,
notwithstanding Col. Bacon’s fol
lowing in this county is by no
means small. In our opinion it
will be a close race here between
whoever is nominated and Gen.
Gartrell. He (Gen, Garlrell)
represents the county belore the
U. S. court in a case brought
against it by a negro for the re
covery of damages sustained by
a falling bridge, and which in
volves about $15,000. He may,
however, loose the negro vole by
such a cause.
The Atlanta District meeting,
embracing lhe4Hi Sunday of this
month, will be held in Conyers.
Bishop Pierce is expected to pie
side. This District embraces one
of the most flourishing sections
of the State in Methodism. It
also contains a large share of the
best intellect ol the church in the
Slate.
The Conyers merchants ob
served the 4-tli by closing doors
and Mr. Aaron Phillips celebrat
ed* it by marrying. 11 is lair bride
was Miss Josie Battler. Rev. Dr.
Henry officiated and per
iormed llie ceremony at the
bride’s father’s, Mr. Benj. Butt
ler. The event was rather un
seasonable, bin we trust that
every day of tbek lives may be a
celebration day t them, in which
events may be coin'memorated,as
important to their domestic hap
pineßs as the 4th of July 1776, is
to the American independence.
More anon. Yours truly,
Pickens.
A Dead City.
The sojourner in Venice wonders
sadly how the people ex st without
newspaper. Yet they manage to. do so
in very comfortable fashion, if appear
ances may be trusted. The red-faced
Venetian sits lazily under thehalfdrawn
curtain that takes the place of door to
his shop, waiting for cus’omers, knowing
nothing of tho world without; the worn
en, bare-footed or in toe-slippers, shuf
fle and gossip about; but no one has a
newspaper or a book ; the somber gon
dolier quarrels for an extra ceuiesimi
from his passanger, but be never heard
of America or of England, and has
never read a word even of his own lan
guage. All are proud of Venice, even
though she is but the dowerless bride
of the Adriatic ; proud that she was
once conquered by., Napoleon ; proud
of ihe church and square of St. Mark’s;
proud of the palaee of the Doges, with
its quaint Moorish Gothic architecture;
i proud, for aught 1 know, of the Bridge
of Sighs, “a prison and a palace on
each hand,” and of the horrible ma
chinery of persecution underneath,
running down a hundred steps into
the gioomv earih, where the early
Venice developed all that was delvish
in man. But Venice is a bankrupt
city, only half led, a pauper of brass
■ gewgaws and filigree, slowly returning,
through gloomy grandeur, to the quag
, mire lrom which it spruDg.
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Marked for Life.
A young Milwaukee lawyer was sit—
| ting in his office a few evenings ago,
with his foot on the desk, thinking
There was a vague suspicion in his
mind that in toe near future he would
have a case. As he blew the smoke to
.the ceiling, there was a rap at the
'door. A pale young man entered and
isaid he wanted a little advice. The
lawyer told him that he had struck the
right place, asked him to proceed.
‘Well, what I want to know is if a
man marks me for life, can I collect
damages from him ?’
The lawyer said it was the easiest
thing in the world to collett damaees in
such cases.
‘Then,’ said the yonng man, ‘if a girl
goes out riding with me to a picnic,and
she gets marked for life, can she collect
damages from me V
The lawyer scratched his head a mo
ment, looked wise, went and looked in
to a copy of the revised statutes and an
encyclopedia, and then looked into a
volume of patent office reports, when
he finally expressed the opinion to the
young man that in the latter case there
was no possible show of the girl's col
lecting damages from him, and it was
ten dollars, please.
‘Well,’ said the young man, ‘I want
you to commence suit against a livery
stable keeper for ten thousand dollars
damages Yon see, last summer I hir
ed a team and a top buggy to take a
girl out to the yacht raovs. On the
way out there the almightie.t thunder
storm you ever saw, came up, it
drenched us from head to loot. There
wasn’t a dry rag on me, and the girl
said if there was one on her she didn’t
know where it was. But it finally
clrared off, and we drove around by
the bank of the lake. We had on
white clothe?. 1 had on a pair of white
Marseilles pants.and the girl had on a
white muslin dress. Well, sir, do you
know when we got out, the whole back
of us was as blue as indigo. The
bugvy cushion was blue, and
when it got wet the blue just Itir
ly run off, and it was the bluest
blue you ever saw. Well. 1
thought the girl would die. When
she stood off with her back low
ard me, I could tbink of nothing
but an Italian sunset on the lake
of Chroino. She was the bluest
girl I ever saw—tru ble, and no
mistave. And my pants! When
I went away from her to get a
better view of Hie yacht race and
to swear a little. I must have
looked to her like some old blue
rum in a theatre. We didn’t
care to go into the hotel to din
ner, and we didn’t get anything
to eat, except a glass of beer and
a piece of sausage, which I had a
Prussian bring out to the buggy.
The girl got mad because I laugh
ed a little a her having Hie blues
and she wouldn’t speak to me all
the way home. We came into
town alter dark, and I thought
tile affair would blow over but
blast me it the blue color didn’t
‘set’ on inv skin, and nothing will
take it off. I have tried every
thing, but it is just as blue to day
as it was Hie night 1 got home. I
am deeply, darkly," beautiiully
blue, and probably shall be du
ring my natuial life. Well,
ibis is only half Hie trouble.
About aweek after we got back,
the girl’s father came tome with
a gun and asked what kind of
colored person I was. It seems
that the blue just as set in its
way in his family as it was in
mine. I explaind it to him tlie
best way 1 could, but he said
there was only one reparation
that a man of honor could make
in such a case. Now can you
save me ?
The \oung man said lie believ
ed lie could, but lie would have
to look up the authorities, and he
took down a ‘Blue Book’ of the
legislature and told the young
man to come in again on Salur
day, with ten dollars more. It
certainly will be one of the most
singular cases that has ever been
before the courts. —Ex
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IMITATING ATLANTA
Louisyille to have a Cotton Exposi
tion in 1883 or 1884
Courier Journal,
Louisville was considering the
practicability of a Cotton Exposi
tion at this point, when Atlanta,
with her characteristic energy,
took hold the project,enlisted the
co-operatinn of the railroads,
aroused loci and State pride, ob
tained a little aid—very little, in
deed—from other cities, and gave
an exhibition which attracted Lhe
attention and earned the adtnira
tton of the whole country. The
celerity with which Atlanta mov
ed, fairly took our breath away,
and we think there are a number
of us who have not fully recov
ered from the shock received
when we realized how near we
had come to stumbling into a
great enterprise.
It is our opinion that an expo
sition, with cotton as its central
motive, with wool, silk and to
bacco more prominently represeii
ted than Atlanta, held at Louis
ville, would result in great ad
vantage to all Southern iuterests
—and we believe if there is any
disposition to have the Exposi
tion at Atlanta repeated, that
Louisville ought to be allowed to
under take it.
The principal difficulty is in re
gard to time. Tne second cotton
exhibition should show a marked
advance over that at Atlanta; it
should record the effects of the
first, and so stimulant to greater
future effort. If it is held next
year, the time elapsing between
the two is so short that the best
benefits of the first will not have
been fully realized. On the oth
er hand, should the exhibition be
postponed until 1884, it would be
interfered With greatly by the
presidential campaign. W e
should be glad to have the whole
subject well canvassed by those
most interested in the advance
ment of the material interests of
the South.
ORCHARD GRASS
This valuable grass ranks next
in importance to the tall meadow
oat grass for hay and winter past
ure. It succeeds very well at
the south on dry bottom land, or
on rich upland. There is a pecul
larity abont it. The writer has
never observed it to spread from
the scatterings of its own seed.
From some unaccountable reason,
the scattered seed do not vege
fate ; if, therefore, it be sowed too
tbjiij it does not fill up the gap,
and presenls an unsightly appear
ance, aud gives inferior grasses a
chance to occupy the yacant spa
ces.
Orchard grass, for hay, should
be cut as soon as it begins to
blossom; if cut then, the hay is
sweet,tender,and nutritious; but
if the cutting be deferred until
the seed has formed, the hay will
be hard and valueless.
After cutting, orchard grass
springs rapidly, and the after
growth is heavy. This should not
be pastured during the summer
or fall, but should be reserved for
winter grasing.
The seed of orchard grass is also
very light and chaffy,and there
fore two bushels should be sowed
to the acre.
Tins grass was introduced, into
England, from Virginia, in 1764.
it is very highly valued in that
country, and the northern states
it bolds a high rank as a hay and
pasture grass. But its chief ben
fit is lost at the north, it can not
be pastured during the winter.
Orchard grass is not, suited to
wet bottom land, but thrives in a
rich up laud. It grows well in an
orchard, or in thinned woodland.
With the exception of a meadow
oat grass, orchard grass stands a
drout better than any other of the
cultivated grasses.
Where bay is an object, these
two grasses (meadow oat and or
chard grass) should be sowed
with red clover and white, as each
of the four blossoms at Hie same
lime, and is, therefore, simult ine
ous ready for the scythe. They
answer, also, to mix with clover
in a rotation, where the clover is
to stand two or three years, as
they mature rapidly, and assist in
giving a compact aod. The farm
er should remember that a sod of
grass and clover turned under is
quite equal in value to a costly
application of either putrescent
or purchased manures. The cul
tivation of these two grasses at
the south can not be too strongly
adapted t o them .—llowaicTs
Manual of Grasses.
Dangers of Eating.
About a year ago we had dis
carded every thing that we
ihonght was dangerous to the
health, when we were startled on
learning that nj’rtip was aduller
ed with nitric acid, and that mi
asma larked in the deadly folds
of boarding house batter cake.
Figures were given to show that
the dreadful batter cake habit
was spreading and prophecies
were made that it would eventu
ally ruin the constitution of the
strongest devotee,and reduce the
Nation to a vast hospital of flap
jack invalids. So the butter cake
was scratched off our list of edi
ble fruits and next went the fra
gant codfish ball, because it was
said to produce cold feet.
Then we learn that the sad fac
ed cohesive biscuit was a syno
nym of indigestion, aiid the un
ostentatious krout but another
name for rheumatism, so that the
biscuit and krout had to go ; then
we lound out the castor oil con
tained the germs of ingoslalic
molecules, whatever that is and
were therefore forced to give up
the use of that hilarious bever
age.
This thing went on till we had
out off every lliing from our bill
of fare but cistern water and
chewing gum, and yet found
ourselves no stronger or healthier
than when we were hastening to
the tomb from the effects of gorg
ing ourselves with a heavy line
of assorted poisons three or four
times a day.
About this time a man came
along with a magic lantern, and
showed us that every drop of cis
tern water contained an aquarium
of hideous marine monsters with
wiggling tails, and a druggist
told us that the habit of gum
chewing was a fruitful source of
cancer.
Next thing we did was to swear
off being an infernal fool on tbe
diet question, and now we eat
anything and everything that our
teeth will masticate or our palate
commend, and we can work ten
hours a day and see to read small
print without spectacles.—
change.
CARRYING PISTOLS.
There are evils which society
must redress. When a man with
his family can not walk thestreets
of a quiet town or city without
body or limb being endangered
by a pistol shot from the band of
another man—whether that man
be a friend or enemy ; whether lie
be drunk or sober—there must be
something radically wrong, either
in out civil insTruclTh]is'~or our
social system. What business
have good men with six shooters?
.They are the worst I lungs possible
forbad men to handle. The law
pronounces carrying concealed
weapons an effense. and punishes
the offender. The man who buys
one, and keeps on bis person or
conveniently near him to be used
against Hie life of men who may
offend him, is a foe to Ins fellow
man. He lives in a 6tatc of armed
neutrality in the midst of socielv
and stands ready when passion'
bursts into a flame, or when whis
ky dethrones reason, to shoot
down his antagonist with a pur
pose as fell and deadly as that of
the cnnianche who slaughters his
foe. Society, by tacitly approving
Hie possession and the occasional
use of the revolver or bowie-knife,
is also guilty. Wl.en it sheds a
few I ears with the widows and or
piians of good men slain bv rash
hands, and yet makes no effort to
stop Hie bloody work, it becomes
chiefly responsible for this evil
and its results. It is not sufficient
forthe law to say that carrying
concealed weapons is an offense ;
but the moral sentiment of the
people must sustain the law and
pronouce its unqualified condem
nation on the man who aims him
self in the midst of a civilized and
peaceful community as he would
were every friend and neighbor
his deadly foe. It must be to an
honorable man a source of pro
found and permanent regret that
in a moment of oassion his hand
should have stricken down a
neighbor for whom he entertained
feelings of personal friendship,
but that sorrow will not recall the
deed nor abate its disastrous re
sults. A brave and honorable
man who respects the rights ol
others has no need of a revolver
to guard himself against instil
or wrong. It. is the bold, bad
man, or the weak and coward h
man, ortlie mean and treacherous
mau, who fortifies his courage
amid the ordinary business pur—
suils ol li e by the presence of a
deadly weapon which will give
him the advantage in case of an
affray.— I'exas Advocate.
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Ground Air.
‘Ground air,” or the air in the
soil, has a considerable influence
on health- Dr. I’aitenkoler bi
lieves that the porosity of the
ground on winch we live is so
great that “heavy, towering
buildings olten stand on a soil
which is filled to the extent of a
third ol its, volume with rir. This
air contains more carbonic acid
than that of our atmosphere, as
well as deleterious exhalations.”
When a house is heated to any
extent it becomes a draught-flue,
and draws such air out from the
ground as if it were a cupping
glass.— Progress.
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Worth Remembering,
Now that good times are again
upon us, it is worth remembering
that no one can enjoy the pleas
antest surroundings if in bad
health. There are hundreds of
miserable people going about to
day with disordered stomach,liv
er or kidneys, when abottieof
Parker’s Ginger Tonic would do
them more good than all * the
medicines they have ever tried
fi lIT H Great chance to make money
ylf JIU, Those who always take ad
vantage of the good chances for mak
nig money that are offered, generally
qecome wealthy," while those who do
not improve such chances remain in
poverty. We want many men, women
boys and girls to work for us right in
their own localities. Anyone can do
the work properly from the first start.
The busineas will pay more than ten
times ordinary wages. Expensive out
fit famished free. No one who en
gages fails to make money rapidly.
You can devote your whole time to tha
work, or only your spare moments.
Full information and all that is needed
sent free. Address Stinson & Cos.,
tan. 49—ly Portland, Me.
hi nin non.
FOR 1882.
EXTRAOR DINAR Y ATTRACTIONS.
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(’LUES OF THREE AT. S2.OG!
The Sunny South has long been rec
ognized by the American people as a
grand success, and everybody is de
lighted.. But each year adds to its in
leiest and importance, and during the
ensuing twelve months it will be far su
perior >o its former self in every par
ticular.
MR*. MARY E. BRYAN
will be chief assistant in the cdtoria
management, with L. L. Veazy, Ehi
and Richard PenfieW to help. She
will run some of her best stories dur
ing the y ar.
FATHER A. J. BUY AN,
known and loved all over the south as
our sw etest poet, and as the author of
“Furl that Banner," will be a regular
c ntributor of prose and poetry. He
will also wiite a story.
BETSY HAMILTON
will c mii.ue to edify and convulse the
public with h. r quaint ideas aud inim
itable style from the Backwoods.
SLIM JIM
will begin anew s ries of “Off Hand
Talks’’ upon the popular questions of
the day.
BILL ARP'S PEN
will not be allowed to rest long. Ilis
sage advice and sensible suggestions
are ton popular.
TALMAGE’S SERMONS
from the great i'rookJyn Tabernacle,
w II continue to appear regularly
BENCH AND BAR OF GEO.
Under ihis head will appear original
sketches and anecdotes of prominent
living and dead members of the bench
and bar of Georgia.
THE SOUTHERN lIOUSEHOLD.
This is one of the most popular de
partments wiih ail Southern and Nor
thern women, and all are urged to con
tribute to it.
CORPORATE MONOPOLIES.
The brilliant serfs of articles upon
this subject, by the Hon. Stephen I).
Dallave, ol Washington City, will be
continued.
STORIES! STORIES!
Con ioui and and short stoiies by the
best writers of I lie and y will apixar in
every is-iue. New sto ies will be com'
ineiici and every few weeks duoug the
year.
BIOGRAPHIES aid PORTRAITS
‘Our Portrait Gallery,*’ wi h sketch
es of the prominent men and woi:-en of
the hour, w.li be kept up with anew
inti rest.
Hoc ety gos3ip, f.,rrn and home, con
dens-d mws ol thi- Sates, answers to
correspondents, leiters from all point.-,
a. dom rotes e'c.. will continue to be
prominent fe.i ar g of the piper.
ol three or m n will re
ceive it at $2 a year.
RADICAL CUREygPl|y
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