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About The Rockdale banner. (Conyers, Ga.) 1888-1900 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 15, 1889)
KPALE BAN a EE. TERMS : 00. !»«■»•“",:f»S':: in advance-.--SI. ..DO cts .25 “ .< tlivee Lead ai dvertidng medium of »(* chide county. VoL 11. The Parson Rides. Theory an d practice do not al (Fays agree __a fact which a good iatured hut rather unpractical -cushy clergyman once found to as cost. His youngest son, vhem he was educating at an ag licultural college, came home at ■the'first vacation, eager to display f i5 ae TfIy acquired knowledge. I [his On the afternoon of his return father chanced to speak of a Kicking- [ “Oh? cow that troubled confidently, him. “I Ln said his son soon stop that. We learn all [these things at boy,” college.' replied the “Well, my like the father, “there’s no time [present. [suppose It’s try about it now?” milking and time; he you For the led the way to the barn. [convenience led of the and operator tied to the animal was out a ■tree. “Now,” said Sam, the son, “It’s I very simple. All you’ve got to do I is to put a weight on her back and [then [see?” she can’t kick. Don’t you I “H-m! I’ll see later. But we’ll [try ! it,” answered shall the clergyman. for weight?” “What we use a j said Sam. Look here! I’ll make I a weight of myself, and you can I milk.” And so saying he mount¬ ed the cow’s back. For a moment the animal seem I ed too much surprised to move. I The minister began to milk, and I then up went her heels and Sam I found himself on his back. “A striking, but not exactly a I successful, illustration,” dryly re I marked the father. “The theory’s all right,” persis I ted Sam, ruefully, rubbing his I back; “the trouble is, I ain’t heavy I I enough. Now if you’ll just get on, Ill warrant it’ll he all right.’ “H-m! perhaps,” answered his I father, with a glance at his own I portly form. “There is some dif [ I ference but I’ll in weight. Don’t know try it, but mind, I don’t I mean to risk a tumble. Get that rope by tlie door there, and tie my feet underneath. Then let her kick if she can!” The good clergyman was soon I mounted and after a little difficul I ty securely tied. Sam attempted I to milk. At his touch up went the I cow’s lieels again. “Sam!” exclaimed his father, “I I can’t stand this—cut the rope!” Sam whipped cut his knife, but I in Ms confusion cut loose—not his father but the cow! i The animal, thoroughly fright I ened, ran frantically through the I open gate out into the road toward the village, with the elder clinging to her for dear life. The people skired almost mute with surprise, ts they saw their pastor riding j tjirough the town on a cow’s back, “Why, par—parson! Where— 'mere be you going’?” stammered an amazed deacon. “The Lord and this cow only know!" came faintly back, as on Ward his cow rushed. J -p h ° a ly ““If™ “ 3 C ° m i SdhW , . - in stonhn’T IT" thandliV A! r F Cr a ion ’ ° time t tlie - parson -. refused , ’notions^” 1 to listen “nnv Sa”n taore college and a "rf to “of 4 l0S ° tt8 Tfr" 4tle knowledge was a dangerous the best remedy was a a -ger dose—Companion. r, H . 13 rumored in Washington that Mai isce?W-^ J F tt ! this • state to be appointed to Ce .r i 7 Ier the republican ad -u * fiiukraaon. Has Gen. Harrison entering feetedMaj. wed-e Hanson to to be the eratie party Geor^a? *Thoue^ t -•. y?y' f~*0& ■ Nv • w 1 Qj ' ✓ riv>v — •'''■G-d . "i; v i <T : -: im SM m Si -\ L'S’ j£Bz., 1 = 2 : ' ^ ■M B i -mm • • S. fc&A m S mu7^ y% £3! -r An^em- O* CONYERS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, January. 15, 1880. A Dangerous Doctrine, Tlie anarchists and socialists are organizing Sunday-schools in Chicago not to teach religion, but to inculcate the peculiar doctrines of tlie fanatics who are seeking the destruction of society. The schools are under the superinten¬ dency of Paul Grottkau, and are said to be making great progress. There are already sfx schools in full blast. They meet every Sun¬ day morning, and the men, wo¬ men, and children are taught the most pestiferous doctrines. Stran¬ gers can not gain admission to these schools. Those interested in their management boast that they will soon have twenty-five thousand on their rolls. Many of those now attending are little children under ten years of age. Nothing has been done to put a stop to these schools. Their gos¬ pel is a gospel of revolution. They advocate the destruction of property by any means whatsoev¬ er. Dynamite, nitro glycerine, fire, and sword are the weapons with which they propose to fight the combined forces of society. Like blind Samsons they arc seek¬ ing to pull down the ruins of our social fabric upon themselves and their fellow-men. They profess to believe that out of the ruins would arise a society self-govern in which there would be no in¬ equality in rank or wealth. They are misguided and deluded fanat¬ ics, the leaders of whom are mor¬ al lepers fit only to inhabit the dungeons of criminals. Senator Blair is a very happy man. He believes that President Harrison will aid the passage of his educational bill, and his idea is that free education will make the south [republican. Ho pre¬ dicts that when the southern ne¬ groes become educated they will demand and obtain higher wages, anc\ thus protect northern work¬ ingmen against the underpaid la¬ bor oPtlie South. If this scheme is at the bottom of the general educational movement now being pushed forward it ’ is time for southerners to give it their serious consideration. The Rev. Charles Goss, of Chi¬ cago, said in a recent sermon: “One single saloon in a town of 2.000 people is more to be dreaded than sll the thieves and gamblers in tho State. In five years it will break up twenty families, cause at least three suicides and result in at least fifty infractions of the law. The tears cannot be count¬ ed nor the heart-aches numbered. God alone knows them.” Mr . T J. Pendly, a Henry coun¬ ty farmer, has three potatoes that weigh twenty-five pounds. A millionaire railway king has a brother who is hard of hearing, he himself is remsl “' Ie « tot** . W pronnnent nose. 0ncc tlus rallw0 5' :, p o.ncd .... ’ friend’s house, where he sat be tween two young ladies who talked Wm very loudly, rather jto his annoyance, but he said nothing. 006 thena shouted a commonplace remarx, and then said in an ordinary J tone to the , * rneMdies,” “Pardon said the millionaire, “its my brother who is deaf.“ Tf ;!]!!,, ‘ • ■■ 4 that the New York t executions , n cnactin 0- that executions for i crimes committed after the Is* } inst . should be by electricity, made no provision •• for fv-mbduno- ° the elec tricity. Lhe Scientific Amc . . ri can suggests that this amounts to an indefinite postponement of tions. The Electrical Review con to tte tlmt electricity is not suited work Fortunes in Grass. Within the last two or three years several farmers in Elbert county have devoted considerable attention to the hitherto despised Bermuda grass, and find in this a far better profit than they reaped either form their corn or cotton. Thousands of acres of rich bottom lands are covered with Bermuda grass, and were for a long time thrown out as unfit for cultivation. Since the adoption of the stock law, however, this grass has proved a great benefactor to tbe farmer in furnishing him with the most luxuriant pastures, and also affording large yields of hay when cut. Messrs. Hudgins and brother, kwo of Elbert’s most prosperous and enterprising far¬ mers, have prepared about sixteen acres of Bermuda grass land for moving. The present year, from a single cutting, they gathered 50 two-horse loads of the best hay, averaging 1,000 pounds to the load. This hay readily sells at $1.25 per hundred, making a yield of $825 from sixteen acres. The Emory Phoenix edited and published by the students of Em¬ ory College says: “Dr. A. G. Hay good will give the Seniors a series of lectures on the Evidences of Christianity some timo in the near future. "VYe anticipate a rare literary feast in these lectures.” Capt. R. Hobbs, of Albany, lias determined to enter upon an ex¬ periment which may result benefi¬ cially to tliat section and the en¬ tire South. ITe says that he can’t see why jute won’t grow in the rich lands of West Dougherty, and he has ordered one pound of tlie jute seed with which he proposes to make a fair test of the adapta¬ bility of the soil and climate to its growth. Ho will plant it in a rich alluvial soil on his West Dougherty plantation, and devote every necessary attention to its cultivation. Easy crying widows take new husbands soonest; there’s nothing like wet weather for transplanting. An effort is to be made to have the state’s new agricultural exper¬ iment station located at Griffin. Morgan county furnished buri¬ al last week to Aunt Arie Starr, aged 100 years. Five generations stood by her grave. There is a lady in Brunswick who has a parrot that speaks three different languages. It was given to her by a Norwegian captain. The languages it is said to speak are Norwegian, Spanish and French, and the lady is now en¬ deavoring to teach it English. Senator Brown voted with the republicans to keep the taxes on bagging. Senator Brown is en¬ gaged in the coal and iron busi ness. Most of his constituents are not. Dr. Talmage says .that whoever listens to a slander is equally guilty with the one who tells it, and with an old writer says: “They ght both to , be hung 1 the one i >y on the tongue and the other y ie ear - There is many a child made wayward by bad parental ment. The iniquity of the fathers is visited on the children, while yet the children are still responsi ble. Y e cannot explain this, but there is no disputing the facts which we see around us every day. lt is wel1 for us to lay a f de speculation and adjust ourselves to tne facts tacts. The ancient proverb says: lou cannot get more out of a bottle than . • « r™ f y 1 * "l, • enrol. 1 ' F he can get * headache a sick ■ I stomache, and perhaps ten days i* the lockup. Make Home Happy. Learn to govern yourselves, an£ be gentle and patient. Guard your tongues, especially in seasons of ill-health, irritation and trouble and soften them by prayer and a sense of your own shortcomings and errors. Remember that, val¬ uable as is the gift of speech, si¬ lence is often more valuable. Never retort a sharp or angry word. It is the second that makes the quarrel. Learn to speak in a gentle tone of voice. Learn to say kind, pleasent things when¬ ever opportunity offers. Study the character of each, and sympa¬ thize with all in their troubles, however small. Do not neglect little things if they can effect the comfort of others in the smallest degree. Avoid moods and pets and fits of sulkiness. Learn to deny yourselves and perfect others. Beware of meddlers and talebear¬ ers. Never charge a bad motive if a good one is conceivable. There are 1(50 cotton seed oil mills in the South, representing a capital of not less than $12,000, 000. In 1880, there were [only forty oil mills in the South and at that time most of the cotton seed were fed to cattle or used for manure. The citizens ofDouglasville met last week and [agreed to build a cotton factory on the co-operative plan. A charter will be applied for at once, so Colonel James says. Brooks county is about twenty two miles square. Last year the farmers raised their own meat, corn, oats, syrup, etc. Many make then sugar that they use. With many cotton is a surplus crop. Their bank deposits amount to $000,000, without in¬ terest. Farmers of the county have offered to lend money to'ros ponsible persons in Quitman at 4 per cent. Every year the county ships thousands of bushels of homc-mado corn and oats and large quantities of home-made meat. Fifty-five dollars was the amount realized by some burglars who entered the house of Rev. Mr. Eakens in Oxford Sunday night. The money belonged to students in Emory eollege. According to Brother Watter son’s reliable newspaper the Louis¬ ville, Ky. Courier-Journal, Ken¬ tucky has six counties—Harlan, Knott, Perry, Letcher, [[Bell, and Leslie—that have never had a church within their borders during the sixty or seventy years of their existence as counties. Hereafter drunkenness on tlie streets of Covington will be pun¬ ished by fine or imprisonment, or both. Over 100 white citizens of Cov¬ ington have signed 8 tho petition asking for an election on the pub¬ lic school question. The Augusta News relates a itory told by a North Carolinian about a wonderful tree in that state. He said there was a poplar tree at g^ion, Haywood county, go } ar g e that it made plank enough to build a church fifty feet long an( j thirty-eight feet wide, twelve f ce t higb, and supplied weather boarding ceiling and flooring, jr rom the same tree a fence wns ] juilt on three-quarters of an : arounc i the cnurch, and there w’ere three logs left over. The remain three logs are enough to build another church of the same j imensions as a b ove . v You will M1 , have no use for , spec taeles if you use Dr. J. H. Me Lean’s Strengthening Eye Salve; it removes the film and seum which accumulates on the eye balls, sub dues inflammation cools an ^ strengthens th the weak irnta^dnerves and failing sight, 25c. a box. Harrison Rides. General Harrison has bought his inauguration carriage, and it is [now being made by a well known firm of manufacturers in Indiana. It will be what is known as a state coach, or sort of largo landau, and its price is $2,000, which is the price General Harri¬ son will pay for it, ho having in¬ sisted that he should bo charged the regular price. From the same makers tlio president-elect has ordered a family shopping car¬ riage to cost $1,000. Besides this, ho has made arrangements for securing for his uso in "Wash¬ ington a stable of probably a half dozen horses, all to bo at least sixteen hand high and cherry bay in color. The whole outfit is ex¬ pected to bo in Washington ready for use by Mr .Hi 4. During the last twenty years 423 railroads, comprising 28 per cent, of the total mileage of the country, have been sold at auction and many others have barely managed to escape that fate. This would go to show that the enormous new construction during these years was not induced wholly by profits to be made in operating railroads. The profits to the builders were in many cases col¬ lateral. ■— m i — i ■ <n*m m i m im h — When you are constipated, with take loss of appetite, headache, one of Dr. J. H. McLean’s Little Liver and Kidney take Billets. and will They are pleasant to vial. cure you. 25 cents a The artesian well at the Arte¬ sian house, in Albany, Las been sunk to a depth of 700 feet, and now flows thirty gallons a minute. The present legislature, which has been aptly termed “the farmer legislature 1 ' has shown a more progressive spirit than any legis¬ lature we liavo had in years and their ideas of progress have been governed with prudence. There has been no rash attempt at wholesale reformation, hut every step has been carefully taken and in a forward direction. The Philadelphia statistics show that there is not a trade or profes¬ sion pursued in tliat city which is not more or less followed by women. If feel your kidneys are inactive, you will and look wretched, even in the most cheerful society, and melancholy on the j oiliest occa¬ sions. Dr. J. H. McLean’s Liver and Kidney Balm, will set you right again. $1.00 per bottle. Too many women of fashion do not know where fashion stops and vulgarity begins. A wilful falsehood is a cripple, not able to stand by itself without another to support it. It is easy to tell a lie, but it is hard to tell only one lie. A school boy being asked what he was sobbing for, replied: “Well I don,t want to cry, but it just bursts out itself.” Old people suffer much from disorders of the urinary organs, and are always gratified at the wonderful effects of Dr. J. H. Mc¬ Lean’s Liver and Kidney Balm in banishing their troubles. $1.00 per bottle. The electric sugar refining swindle is not the only one which has caused people in this country to drop cash within the last fifteen or twenty years. A scheme for burning water was started some years ago, and one for making a aew uu,i vaiuable metal out of iron slang was announced. Each one took money J out of tho pockets 1 of people wno are quicx k to in . essin j new and untried things, and the schemers walked off with their pockete full. Perhaps if people were « 0 t anxious to become weal tfiy at a leap.iney wouici be taken in by these schemes. WORDS TO FRIENDS:! i/i>5 work solicited and satisfac ,; on gvarantead. ______ Reliable attention given advertis¬ ing.. TEEMS EE A SOMA ELE. No. 47. President Dwight of Yale col¬ lege does his writing on an old fashioned secretary that is said to have been in the family 200 years, and the puritanic, straight-backed chair in which lie sits looks as if it had been in the family at least a century. If you spit up phlegm, and are troubled with a hacking cough, use Dr. J. K. McLean’s Tar Wine Lung Balm. Tlie Democratic party is now and it has always been a national party. There is no line of sec¬ tionalism between democrats, dividing them into “northern” and “southern.” Frequently accidents occur in the household which cause burns, cuts, sprains and bruises; for use in such cases Dr. J. H. McLean’s Volcanic Oil Liniment has for many years been tlio constant fa¬ vorite family remedy. Mr. Gladstone, it is announc¬ ed, is going to review a new hook by Margaret Lees, an American writer, called “Faithful and Un- . faithful.” The book deals with tho questions of marriage and divorce, and as tlio [opinions expressed agree with those known to be held by Mr. Gladstone, the grand old man.no doubt will give the work a favorable review. In that case, its sale would he very great. Mr. Gladstone has made tho fortunes of several authors lately. In cases of Fever and Ague, tho blood dangerously is as effectually, poisoned though not the so by it effluvium of tho atmosphere deadliest poison. as could be by the Chills Dr. J. IT. McLean’s and Fever Cure will eradicate this poison from the system. 50 cents ti bottle. It doesn’t look very much as if either.Gen. Longstroet or Col. Buck would he givon a cabinet position. Borne of tho Georgia newspapers suggested ex-Senator Joshua Hill for tho cabinet, hut, while Mr. Hill would be very likely to do himself credit in any position, he will hardly be appoin¬ ted, and he won’t care if he isn’t. Ho is enjoying his old age among friends in both parties in Madison. 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. There aro now 4685 acres of land in Green county under mort¬ gage to longloan companies. The original number was 15,619 acres. Of this number 3422 acres were redeemed, and 7512 sold un¬ der mortgages. Imperfect digestion and assim¬ ilation produce disordered condi¬ tions of the system which grow and arc confirmed by Strengthening neglect, Dr. J. H. McLean’s Cordial and Blood Purifier, by its tonic properties, cures indigestion stomach. and gives tone to the $1.00 per bottle. At the residence of Rev. Sam P. Jones, of Cartersville, cn Christmas day, was held a reunion of the Jones family to partake of a turkey dinner. There were four generations of the family repre¬ sented, and had it not been for the absence of the infant daughter of Portor Stocks, of Atlanta, there would have been five generations at the table. For sick headache, female troubles, neuralgic pj ains in the head take Dr. J. H. McLean’s Little Liver and Kidney Pillets, 25 cents a vial. Mrs. Myra Lewis, wife of Sid¬ ney Lewis, editor and proprietor of the Ishmaelite, died at her home in Sparta Saturday evening. She leaves a husband and three small children, and a large circle of friends, to mourn her death. Her death was not unexpected, as she had been ill with consump tion some weeks. She was a most noble and estimable Christian.
