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BRADY’S BILL A Bill to be entitled an Act to provide for pleading and proving a failure of consideration of any promissory note, or other instru¬ ment in writing, given for com¬ mercial fertilizers, guanos, or oth¬ er manures, and to prescribe a penalty for failing to state the con¬ sideration in the face o’f any nego¬ tiable promissory note, or any other instrument for the same. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That any purchaser of commercial fertilizers, guanos or manures, who shall give a promissory note, or any other instrument in writing for the same, may plead and prove, when sued in any court of the state, a failure of consideration of said instrument when said fer¬ tilizers, guanos or manures have proven worthless or of no practical value. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, etc., That no waiver or warranty, or any other waiver, promise, agreement, condition or undertak¬ ing expressed in any promissory note, or other instrument in writ¬ ing given for commercial fertili¬ zers, guanos or manures shall de¬ feat the right of the makea thereof to plead and prove a failure of consideration of the same. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, etc., That no transfer of any pro¬ missory note, or other instrument • in writing, given for commercial fertilizers, guanos or manures to any person claiming to be an in¬ nocent purchaser without notice, or holding the same under any other contract or agreement, shall defeat the right of the maker thereof to plead and prove a fail¬ ure of the consideration of the same. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, etc., That any agent for, or dealer in, commercial fertilizers, guanos or manures, or any other person who shall sell the same, or who shall take a negotiable promissory note, or any other negotiable in¬ instrument for the same, and shall fail, refuse or neglect to state in the face of said promissory note or instrument in writing, that the same is given for commercial fer¬ tilizers, guanos or manures, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished as prescribed in Section 4310 of the Code of 1SS2. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, etc., That all laws, and parts of laws, in Conflict with this Act be, and th$ same is hereby repealed. Sheriff Hurst of Thomas county dreamed that the prisoners in the jail were plotting to escape. An investagation proved that his dream was true, the prisoners be¬ ing provided with sharpened nails with which to cut through the wall. The sheriff had previously had a similar dream and experience. The last discovery was made Sat¬ urday. A number of/gentlemen in and near LaGrange are talking very strongly of organizing a calvary company, and the outlook now is that the project will be carried through. A lady well known in Atlanta was dressed to attend a grand wedding which occurred at one of the prominent churches, when, to her dismay, she saw one of her front teeth break off close to the root. It was too late to seek a den tist, and then there was no time to have it fixed anyway; but she de termined not to be kept at home from the reception and ceremony. Putting her woman’s wits together which never fail in time of need, she concluded to stick the tooth .on until the morrow with beeswax, and then seek a dentist. The idea pleased her. It was a happy thought. So fastening it on se curely she proceeded to the church and from the church to the recep tion, which was being held at the house. When she entered the uiug room all thoughts of the cident and the remedy vanished, tmd it was not until she had drunk a f „P of hot coffee <uHl-swdl.tr. ea the tooth that she realized her sad plight. to'bein Sow is the thitk time, Lout oh, lb.1 tew to leaf you are going to turn over on the 1st of January, and the very best way to start about it t pay your editor. * '-y/ ' /v * V. v . jag?-.. if mm A J 1 g|ik~ | k \ I fil i u < i L M yy ri H y f & 1 w s £ mi > Ar>.- ct*o to, *z~ { v i y&k !l vii I If \ vf | wg 3 | 11. Cigarette Smoking. > Cigarette smoking has become so prevalent among our boys that its deadly bane lias led some of our legislatures to pass acts “pro¬ hibiting the sale of cigarettes or tobacco in any of its forms to minors.” Dr. Hammond says: “Cigarettes produce facial neuralgia, insom, nia, nervous dyspepsia, sciatica and an indisposition to mental ex¬ ertion.'’ Cigarettes are beginning to overshadow all other branches of the tobacco business, and our most eminent physicians agree in condemning cigarette smoking as one of the most obstructive evils that ever befell our youths, and declare that its direct tendency is a deterioration of the race. Even females who call themselves ladies habitually use cigarettes. The New York Tribune asserts: “The extent to which drugs are used in cigarettes is appalling.” —Philadelphia News. When he was in the Senate of the United States Benjamin Har¬ rison made several good speeches, but the best thing he said while a Senator was this: “One dollar voted by the people of any school district for the support of common schools is worth S10 given out of the treasury. It evinces an inter¬ est in education, and guarantees a careful and intelligent supervis¬ ion. Only a local supervision will bring these constituencies that are now so backward in the race of education abreast with other states. In my judgment, there could be no worse policy than to throw in a single year into those states $15,000,000 out of the national treasury.” Senator Blair will hardly have an overpowering influence with the next adminis¬ tration. His educational bill lias been dead for some time, but re¬ cent events have tightened the screws in its coflin. New York has discovered an old manuscript of some kind which it is attempting to foist on the world as a copy of the decla¬ ration of independence. One of these days some Gotham sharp will turn up with the original Ten Commandments. It seems to he in the East river air. More outrages by “white caps” in Ohio are reported, showing that the valiant Governor Fora¬ ker has not crushed them out as completely as he boasted the other day. He then said that he knew them all; that “they were divided into lodges, and the entire order was under a general officer known as a ‘colonel.’ There were nine lodges in Ohio, with a member¬ ship of about 1,000, among whom were many of the best citizens of the communities in which they were organized.’ That is a larger number of ku-klux than even the most unscrupulous, lying repub fican ever cliargod upon Georgia fn reconstruction times, Will Governor Foraker invoke the Fed eral constabulary or military to aid him in suppressing this fresh outbreak by Ohio s “best citizens ? Trinity church in Atlanta has decided to dispense with choir s i n ging, and hearafter the con ogegatiou will do its own singing, There will be no more p G ws at Trinity either. The c Burcli is going to try the methods which prevailed when people had “old-time religion. The man who lays his hand to the plow and doesnt look back 18 tal* Mossed. You will have no use for S P® C " tacles if vou use Dr. J. H. Ale Lear>s ^X^“eST“b j ues iufiammation, cools aud gooths the irritated aud failing . strengtbeBS weak sig 25c* a ^ ox * CONYERS, GA., TUESDAY, Dec. 25, 1888. -**■ Sheffield News Bethel Sunday school is to have a Christmas tree some time during Christmas .week. All are cordially invited to participate. Hope they will do so and make it a success. Miss Lucy Miller after a pro¬ tracted sickness is very much im¬ proved. She is visiting friends at Centerville this week. Rev. Mr. Edwards will succeed Mr. Farris on the Logansville cir¬ cuit. Mr. Farris goes on the De Kalb circuit. He leaves a host of friends whose benediction will go with him into his new field. Dr. Moore of Oxford was in this community last Saturday and Sun day. I understand Mrs. Judge Carr and family will move to Macon at an early day. Sheffield has two candidates for Justice of the Peace; Mr. P. M. Born and Mr. M. S. Ayeock. Won’t some one run for constable? Mr. J. W. Swords has moved to his new home near Conyers re¬ cently purchased from Mr. Walker Granade. Mr. Swords is oue of our best citizens, and any com¬ munity may feel proud of the priv¬ ilege of welcoming such as him and his estimable lady among them. Frank Cooper, aged about 16 years and son of Airs. Elizabeth Cooper, died last Saturday night about 9 o’clock after a short ill¬ ness from pleurisy. He was a bright and promising youth. He was a favorite of the family and generally beiiked by all who knew him. The bereaved family have the sincere and heart-felt sympa¬ thy of this entire community. Rev. W. T. Wood after a pro¬ tracted visit to relatives in this community has returned to his home in Gwinnett county. If your kidneys are wretched, inactive, you will feel and look even in the most cheerful society, and melancholy on the jolliest occa¬ sions. Dr. J. H. McLean’s Liver and Kidney Balm, will set you right again. $1.00 per bottle. When you are constipated, with loss of appetite, headache, take one of Dr. J. H. McLean’s Little Liver and Kidney Pillets. They are pleasant to take and will cure you. 25 cents a vial. Croupy suffocations, night coughs and all the common affec¬ tions of the throat and lungs quickly relieved by Dr. J. H. Mc¬ Lean’s Tar Wine Lung Balm. Old people suffer much from disorders of the gratified urinary organs, the and are a-lways of Dr. J. .at H. Mc¬ wonderful effects Lean’s Liver and Kidney Balm $1.00 in banishing their troubles. per bottle. Imperfect digestion and assim¬ ilation produce disordered condi¬ tions of the system which grow and are confirmed by Strengthening neglect, Dr. J. H. McLean’s Cordial and Blood Purifier, indigestion by its tonic properties; to cures the stomach. and gives bottle. tone $1.00 per For sick headache, . female troubles, neuralgic pains in the head take Dr. J. H. McLean’s Little Liver and Kidney Pillets. 25 cents a vial. troubled J. witl.T H. McLean’s ‘SSFcLgh, Tar Wine are use Dr. Lung Balm. In cases of Fever and Ague, the blood is as effectually, though the not so dangerously poisoned by it effluvium of the atmosphere loison. as could he by the deadliest p< jj n,- r j_ J jj. 44 McLean’s McLean's eradicate Chills Ch this an Fever Cure will poison from the system. 50 a io e. Frequently accidents occur in LtXX ^ A LiSr jlllle for'Te J H Volcanic Oil Liniment has for ; many years been the constant fa Ionte fmUy ““T*. Atlanta recovered* A A man man in —a- „ „ T „ re Sne medicine nv bad on the fte male pouod eround iim thaUhe worse, The Covington Tragedy. m There is considerable gossip and some newspaper reports as to what Mr. Samps Colien has said about the Pitts House tragedy, but whether he gave expression to the words reported we know not. The Solicitor General do clines to state what Mr. Colien said to him as to the guilt or cenee of Mr. C. H. Echols. Wo hope no newspaper will sit as judge and jury on this case after the courts have had an op portunity to go into a full and thorough investigation. Admit ting that Mr. Samps Cohen has “talked and what lie said is "very damaging to Mr. Echols,” it be time enough to take it as con elusive evidence, when the same is delivered on oath in a court of justice. Mr. Echols is in jail and if he is found guilty of this crime will have to pay the fearful penal ty with his life. Until he is given a trial before the courts of his country we think it unwise to give publication to every rumor put in circulation. However, anything and everything which can throw any true light on that unfortunate and brutal tragedy should not he withheld from the public or the courts, who want direct and posi¬ tive evidence and* not testimony founded on rumor or hearsay without facts to sustain it. An application for bail was made by Mr. Echols’ attorneys, on Monday, in Atlanta, before Judge Harris, of the Coweta circuit. Judge A. M. Speer, Col. J. F. Rogers and Major J. M. Paco ap¬ peared for Echols. Col. Vt : S. McHenry, Judge E. F. Edwards and Solicitor General Womack represented the state. No new facts wore brought out during the hearing.—The motion for bail was not granted or denied when we went to press.—Covington En¬ terprise. The retirement of Mr. Henry M. McIntosh from the editorship of the Albany News and Advertiser is very generally regretted. Mr. McIntosh has conducted the pa¬ per successfully and has rendered valuable service to Albany. Both the North Georgia and the South Georgia conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Snutli, showed a large increase in the membership of that church in Georgia during the present year. A bronze statue of heroic size is to be’placed over the grave of Stonewall Jackson at Lexington, Var Someone wants to know there are pianists in the next world.” If there are not it because they haven’t been told to go there. Johnny—Tommy, let’s put our pennies together and buy ma a nice Christmas present. Tommy— All right. J.—What shall it be? T.—I guess we had better get her a padded slipper. i ■■■ ■— ii ■ ■■ n t “And now, little girls, said a Sunday, school teacher, “you may tell me about the epistles. A lit tie girl held up her hand. “Well, said i-i.rt the A/.rtr.Er.,. teacher. “The - epistles, , sa | ( j the little girl, “the epistles are • the wives of the apostles. A girl may not see much in her sweetheart to laugh at, but Lis mustache is pretty sure to tickle ^ death of Hon. S. 0. Cham leaves two vacancies in the scS legislatnre, the other being the formerly filled by Hon. Jsm« y. Hunt, of Catoosa, g eut leman, being worsted in argument ^ with a lady, abrupt )y ^ « Ma d am , what would ^“tu^erlyou vou vou do-era do \ you a one? ’ ' Jxi 4:4, Contest t « nharatvn. * Last Tuesday was set by the ordinary of Newton county for the heaving of the contest of the election held in that county ; the 8th instant under the general !local option liquor law, but tiro prohibitionists withdrew their no ; tice of contest on rot eiving from the antis a proposition ]»ledging j themselves to the cily council j of Covington it>' puss an ordinance providing strict r* go!;; (ions for j the sale of liquor In o city. The I regulations are to ; • as follows; No license is to be .wantod to re tail liquors except in a house fron ting on a main : e. the house is to have hut one door, and that is to he in front, wTh glass in the same; and it is to have 'U , w br¬ daws, which she.]! rensau open at j all times ami be unoaiufcod; there is to ho no bad- ds K > 1 side d#or or trap door, oitlu ; a!-.", o or below, and no cellar to too house, and nothing- is to bo sued m the house except liquor, tobacco and cigars; and upon conviction of a violation of the license laws of the city, the license of the person so convicted shall bo rovoU-d. Upon the withdrawal of ti to notice of con test, the ordinal- proceeded to declare the result of iho clecti-m, which was a- major-: >f one hun dred and fifty-nine votes for the sale of liquor in the c unty. It is announced that the Presi¬ dent-elect has ahead;, determined to call an extraA.n of tist; i’i fly first corigrt ss soon am ;■ the 4th of March. We hope t this state meut is not correct. Mr. 1 Lair i son ought to vs i■/ and sec what the present sc non f congress does before li ik< s up his mind as to t-ho necessity for an extra session. The oui y reason now apparent for calling congress • to¬ gether in t-ho spring is the greed of republican poldivinns and office-seekers, for the spoils to which they claim a title in spite of the civil service 1 IV. i t is a !>a C-a omen if President li-.niso'n r. already "yielded t ;e,) pressure. The social realm J Marietta was enlivened last Tuesday aflov noon io mama of Colonel E. W. Col--man, of G iijny,toMiss Fannie King f Marietta. The ceremony was p G. S. Tomlin, pastor of the First Baptist church, at the home of the bride’s father, Mr. Frank King, in the presene 0 O fa few intimate friends and relatives ol tho con¬ tracting pax ties. The couple was preceded by Mr. ( King and Mr. W. S. Coleman al dthe cere¬ mony was p. < mm:mpv.’-;:-.:ve ly by the min ; -t<r. Among the many hau j isomo presoius given the couple were a - ' V' 1 ) ek ek from Mr. J. W. Hammond, of Savan nah; gold watch hain, 1 'C Mr. Cliff King; sih\ r V? Mr. H. M. Baker; cleg -ut of pear j 8) } >y g,,. Lridehs ^ t oihcr, and H ;i ver g-uit aud < aj v ay pj. Ook The man wffo is rigid neocln t care for appearane All things f ,„ or a< rriiifet will be found in the enc l to haw wo 1 toward vieto r y- courageous HO iefulncsa is ri t - r ldfully h -C In his last rep or- • 1 ■ M,Jl 1 1 of the New York cotton < r 4 f U-' 1 i “- - 2 -- ' the fact that the expo F-UrOTMi ending and Mexico N ovemb for V. i 1 000 ]>ales less ti W'i ere du ring tlie same ,t year, while the takin ,nd Canadian "7 " i« i | vo nr Ff Oil ea to ” i * Lovely* Woman For good«i%vii the power of a woman's sniue is great. It is the outward and visible sign of a tal¬ ent of pleasing which she has re¬ ceived to enable her to be an in jfb.tncofor good in the ordering j and government of the world. J Men are very much what women make them, and it is by rightly using their talent of pleasing, that j women can make men what they °ught to lie. The man at the head of the house can mar the pleasure of the household, but he cannot mol . 0 it , tilat „ msl rest with the M - oulan> , m i i s j ier greatest privilege; 'ft is one of the duties () r v ,- oraen to beautify the world, and especially tlieir own homes | ;ll .j g u q r mvu j )ers(niS j f 0 arrange i fi ie fnrnitvire and ornaments of t ]j e f r rooms tastefully, and gener ally to give a touch of seemliness to Cuat part of the world with which they have to do. To shed joy, to radiate happiness, to cast light upon dark days, to be the gold en thread of our destiny, the spirh of grace and harmony—is not (his to vender a service? Here and there we meet one who pos se -scr the power of enchanting all about her; her presence lights up the house, her approach is like a cheering warmth, she passes by, ;;n; ] . we are content, she stays a while and we arc linppy. She is the Aurora with a human face. run kxk.vi rxioN, GKOKGIA, Itoekdiile county— YVhoiei-.fiMrs. Wary E. O.irr has applied for c.wniptlDM of personalty and setting apart und valuation of homestead, 1 will pass upon the samo at 10 o’clock on the ith day of .lanuary 1 isut my office. 0 . Shamans, Ordinary, • • • Q •a SkS'sSSbBE t 7 -V :■ 'ly*:.. r violists' TUA CrpM Wc have recently increased our stock of .Spectacles and Eye .Glasses and now have over ¥500 \v >rth. Wo can suit any one both in quality and [nice. Our prices range from 25 cents per pair to ¥12 nor pair. We have a large assort¬ ment of common glasses and peb¬ ble glasses. Steel frames, brass frames, composition frames, nickel frames, silver frames and gold frames. Haying, recently purchased a fine oplinieter wo arc prepared to test the eyes and. fit them properly with glasses. Call and examine our stock and pries You will certainly Le pleased. W. II. Lee & Son, T)i!. MIXED PAINTS If you wish to paint your house, buggy, wagon or furniture you will avc money by buying our ready Mixed Paints. . There paints* arc ready for use and any one c*n apply them. We also keep a large stock of White Lead, Brushes, * Ojls, Varnishes, Glass and4’ulty. Son. Du. W. II. Lee it • • • Our Jewelry. We are Headquarters for nice re liable Jewelry, Call aud inspect ** our stock, prices low. Du, W. II. Lee & Son. - F, rail/ aials Commercial Cullege lZfiuJSVSSSk in 1 I'- F LIS ilia h h. ess L«>catio}« op Dep tut* urn op nufJncM, Shorl-b»»d it Typc-^Htln®, TeI<**P*plsf# Cheapest Sc best Business College in the World. (,«n<-ml HbSiii tdcatlM. employed. lO.OMCr^-rcte Coat Fail If uP.neiW Hn«lneM. 1 3 Teacher# or Wfibcr H. hexing torn, Ky. XvUhm this vw Disfinpisy Business Educator ; ertfcsis&jara! of Ivy. lniTer«lty. .. tejre X’WXyJ.ASHSK-,* Il« can buaineia.bcgidwCon- refer to 10.QC0 srraaa attain ’ff..mmra, clly. county and ¥ -/Vm < 4 ,fState »pf recocn'etKl ofliciale. the Hie Cheapen. fale*e. * *r- > e» Honored. tb» ■ ■ J:e-t, JUnhett ■ advertisement of wtaicn appeere ta enot her e ol “run, numbered in the Jins last inert. year Jhonographtc. 1,000 etudente Tope- from ii rll- ® S; at»s Te'egrapAit PeprirtMenii. pre J-mmonshir-.nrA and iioHlJifgh ana bon pai-ftiffdo earn a living, to *•